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Don’t Fire Until You See the Whites of Their Eyes: Fact or Fiction

Generations of Americans have recalled with pride these words that were supposedly spoken during the American Revolution. They conger stouthearted citizen soldiers standing firm before the power of oppression. Farmers and merchants answering the call to arms and grabbing their family muskets to defy what they believed to be an authoritarian government in a David …

Lord Rawdon in America

Always to the front in a fight and the last in a retreat, Lord Rawdon proved himself a brilliant and successful partisan leader.                                                                         Sir George Otto Trevelyan Francis, Lord Rawdon[1] epitomized the perfect British officer in the eyes of those fine gentlemen who sat smugly in their distinguished seats in the House of Lords. …