“We have but very indifferent men in general. Great part of those who ship for seamen know very little of the matter.”

—  Benedict Arnold

Letter to General Gates (7 September 1776), in Battle of Valcour on Lake Champlain, October 11th, 1776 by Peter Sailly Palmer(1876) p. 5

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