On the recordJanuary 1, 1776
We can look round and see the remains of burnt and destroyed houses, once the fair fruit of hard industry, and now the striking monuments of British brutality.
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Thomas Paine
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Paine illustrates the physical devastation and the symbolic meaning of destroyed homes as evidence of British cruelty.
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