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MS-W.776.005
2 Feb 1776:42 (258)
From the Pennsylvania Packet. Remarkable events in the year
1775
. . . [Item 12 of 20]
General Burgoyne came over to America "to coax the Gentlemen
and dance the ladies into submission to the British
Parliament," "to temper his punishments with humanity,
"liv'd six months upon salt meat, wrote two letters, the one
(for Gen Gage) to General Washington, In which he destined
our prisoners to the cord, the other to a noble lord in
England, both in heroics. Did not inflict a single
punishment upon an American-- nor dance with one of our
Ladies got into a passion-- and went home again.
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