"The large garrison immediately became a magnet for sutlers, hucksters, and mountebanks, "ambitious men of craft and cunning swindlers and deceptive knaves, mean sycophants, toadeaters, & spittle lickers," as a Pennsylvania captain wrote."
Excerpt From
The British Are Coming
Rick Atkinson
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