"Not that there wasn't still plenty of subduing to do here in North America. "Even within our own limits, the savage still lights his death fires, to… - Sarah Vowell

In other words, every cent the French government spent on guns for the Americans was another centime it would not have to spend on butter for the starving peasants who would one day storm Versailles.

The more history I learn, the more the world fills up with stories.

The scene of Washington cussing out Charles Lee was for some reason not included in the series of bronze illustrations of the Battle of Monmouth on the monument at the county courthouse. Even though it was the most New Jersey–like behavior in the battle, if not the entire war.