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Riflemen Run Riot: The Mutiny at Prospect Hill
by“They are remarkably stout and hardy men,” thought army surgeon James Thacher, “Dressed in white frocks, or rifle shirts, and round hats.” The robust…
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Thou Shalt Not Steal: Plunder, Theft, and Sticky Fingers
by“The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.”[1] It had been less than three months since Congress had adopted a…
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Congress’s “Committee on Spies” and the Court-Martial Policies of General Washington
byIn the weeks before it declared independence, the Continental Congress was already hard at work building the institutions it would need to maintain the…