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corpulent
finials,
cutlass
grenadier
queue.”
tosspot
banyan.
breastwork
halyard.
parapet
Of all the king’s officers who would die in battle during the long war against the Americans, more than one out of every eight had perished in four hours on a June afternoon above Charlestown.
sepsis.
Rhode Island named Nathanael Greene.
suzerain
inchoate
taciturn
Rum had long been a reward for difficult military duty; Howe quietly made it part of the regular ration, issued at a daily rate of
parapet.
missives
The slave trade, carried largely in British ships, had never been more prosperous than in the years just before the American rebellion, and Britain would remain the world’s foremost slave-trading nation into the
like ruined Falmouth in Maine or Charlestown in Massachusetts, Norfolk became a vivid emblem of British cruelty.
claymores and wicked dirks. Lighted
feints.
thespians,
Chaplains attended their souls—one sermon sought to prove theologically that Satan was a Tory—while sergeants and junior officers worked on their soldiering skills, from parade drill to fire discipline.
moiré
ipecac,
S
settled
autodidact,
Kinsale
abattoirs,
victuallers
firkins
émigrés
fealty.
brigantine
magniloquence.
“inimicals”
taciturn,
obdurate
loyalty was a fluid concept, ebbing and flowing with circumstances and convictions. “No
internecine
smoke to mask the “nauseous and disagreeable effluvia”
Seraphim,
Cherubim.
flèches
subjugating
coxcomb.”
poseur.
