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Washington and his Comrades in Arms

CHAPTER VI
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Judgment is distorted.

The Baroness Riedesel, the wife of one of Burgoyne's generals, who was in Boston in 1777, says that the people were all dressed alike in a peasant costume with a leather strap round the waist, that they were of very low and insignificant stature, and that only one in ten of them could read or write.

She pictures New Englanders as tarring and feathering cultivated English ladies.

When educated people believed every evil of the enemy the ignorant had no restraint to their credulity.

New England had long regarded the native savages as a pest.


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