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"You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done."
Ronald Reagan




Saturday, July 9, 2011

Washington Escapes Brooklyn

After British forces invade Long Island in 1776, Gen. Washington manages to evacuate over 9,000 troops under cover of darkness, when surrender would have meant the end of the quest for independence.



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