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May 27 - June 20, 2019
“Cannon lends dignity to what might otherwise be a vulgar brawl.”
His faith gave others faith; his strength made others strong. “The consequences must be great,” Colonel Stephen Moylan wrote from Morristown. “America will—by God, it must—be free.… I know I never felt so much like one of Homer’s deities before. We trod on air.”
By West’s account, George grew agitated, then silent before finally muttering, “Well, if they cannot be happy under my government, I hope they may not change it for a worse.” The cabinet had replied to Congress by
