The Brits were not interested in winter campaigning. True enough that they were content for the Americans to suffer in the field during the bad weather. Washington believed that requisitioning would be the beginning of the end. The locals would sour on the revolutionary cause if the cause stole their cattle and corn.
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“We’re not innovating. We’re selectively imitating.” June Bernstein, Acting President of the University of Arizona in Tucson, November 15, 1998.
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