On the recordJanuary 1, 1776
However confident you might be on your first arrival, the result of the year 1776 gave you some idea of the difficulty, if not impossibility of conquest.
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Thomas Paine
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gutenberg.orgThomas Paine: “However confident you might be on your first arrival, the result of the year 1776 gave you some idea of the difficulty…”
Editor's note · Context
Paine asserts that the outcomes of the 1776 campaign forced the British to confront the immense challenge of conquering America.
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