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No Harm's Done To History By Making It Something Someone Would Want To Read.

I Love To Go To The Places Where Things Happen. I Like To Walk The Walk And See How The Light Falls And What Winter Feels Like.

Nothing Ever Invented Provides Such Sustenance, Such Infinite Reward For Time Spent, As A Good Book.

I Want People To See That All-important Time In A Different Way-in The Way It Was. For Of A Number Of Reasons, Including The Absence Of Photographs, We Tend To See The Men And Women Of The Revolution As Not Quite Real. And We Have Far Too Little Sense Of What They Suffered.

Housetops Were Covered With 'gazers'; All Wharves That Offered A View Were Jammed With People ... As British Officers Happily Reminded One Another, It Was The Largest Fleet Ever Seen In American Waters. In Fact It Was The Largest Expeditionary Force Of The 18th Century, The Largest, Most Powerful Force Ever Sent Forth By Britain Or Any Other Nation.