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How Lund Washington Saved Mount Vernon

The inhabitants of Alexandria, Virginia, awoke on April 11, 1781 to a disturbing sight.  A flotilla of enemy ships that had spent the last ten days pillaging property on both sides of the Potomac River many miles to the south, had suddenly arrived off of Alexandria.  One observer in Alexandria counted, “three Ships, two Brigs […]

by Michael Cecere