On the recordJanuary 1, 1776
You knew not what it was to be alarmed at midnight with an armed enemy in the streets.
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Thomas Paine
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gutenberg.orgThomas Paine: “You knew not what it was to be alarmed at midnight with an armed enemy in the streets.”
Editor's note · Context
Paine contrasts the lived experience of Americans during the war with the sheltered existence of the English public, who had not faced direct enemy threats.
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