here, on 17 january 1781, the continental army under daniel morgan defeated the british under banastre tarleton, who lost 110 dead and over 200 wounded to 12 colonists killes and 60 wounded---this was one of a series of battles that would lead to yorktown---hot as hell, but nice and quiet as i walked the route around the battlefield----
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Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.
The seed of our destruction will blossom in the desert, the alexin of our cure grows by a mountain rock, and our lives are haunted by a Georgia slattern, because a London cutpurse went unhung. Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.
john northbrooke, c. 1570
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