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IC.780.023
3 Aug 1780:23 (12/623)
Philadelphia, July 8. Extract of a letter from an officer
at camp, dated June 29, 1780.
The patriotism of the women of your city, is a subject of
conversation with the army; had I a poetic genius, I would
sit down and write an ode in praise of it. Burgoyne, who,
on his first appointment to America, boasted that he would
dance with the ladies, and coax the men to submission, must
now have a better understanding of the good sense and public
spirit of our females, as he has already heard of the
fortitude and inflexible temper of our heroes. . .
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