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THE LITTLE WE LEARNED AND THE MUCH WE DIDN’T

My son, we ought to have learned something from all this tragedy of errors. We didn’t. Folks just said, “We licked the entire British Empire,” and let it go at that. The real facts never leaked into their noggins, that the Revolution had been prolonged to eight disastrous years, when by the intelligent and compact use of our resources, it might have been

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