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IL.778.011
3 Aug 1778:43 (1/8)
We are told that out of the 1000 men in the Continental
army, who went from that settlement [Wyoming, Pennsylvania],
their number is by sickness and cruel usage of the prisoners
by the enemy, reduced to 400, who have now to lament the
loss of their property, wives, children, and all that was
dear to them in life! The helpless fugitives from the
place, escaped with little more than their lives, they could
bring nothing with them--hardly clothes to cover them, and
nothing to eat, many were two or three days without
sustenance, and pregnant women were delivered alone in the
woods. Thus it is hoped will be the concluding scene of the
tragedy acted by the British tyrant and his murderous
diabolical emissaries, in a part of his late Kingdom, which
he has justly forfeited, and which is now forever departed
from him.
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