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Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.

Page 81: The chapter about John Armstrong conflates the father, who was born in 1717 and served as a General in the Continental Army, with the son, who was only 18 in 1776 and became a Major in 1782 (Wikipedia).