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The War Years (1775-1783) October 12, 2017 October 7, 2017

Whale Boats on the Hudson

by Phillip R. Giffin

By March of 1778 Maj. Gen. Israel Putnam, “Old Put” to his men, was exhausted.[1] He had been writing to General Washington for months…

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