In those hours when undisciplined patriots were preparing for conflict with the trained soldiers of England, the careful eye of Washington, calmly surveying the whole horizon, selected your hills as the breastworks behind which he was to retrieve the day.
Sumner describes Washington's strategic foresight in selecting the hills for defense during the Revolutionary War.
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