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“The lesson Washington took from Long Island was that he could lose ground but mustn’t lose the army. The British could never occupy all of America. He could retreat and retreat, so long as he had an army to retreat with.”

“. . . Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” — PATRICK HENRY

In a pre industrial society when numbers were essential to society's chances of survival and most children died before reaching adulthood. Women were expected to have babies, the more the better.

John Adams was a lawyer from Boston where until now he had moved in the shadow of his cousin Samuel Adams.