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DDH | The American Crises
In September 1776, New York newspapers carried a mocking letter from a supposed eyewitness who claimed that George Washington and his “dirty pack of New England long faces” were losing the war. The author did not exist. The letter was British propaganda, part of an organized effort to ridicule the Continental Army, undermine public confidence, and convince Americans that resistance had become hopeless.
The uncomfortable part was that the propaganda did not need to invent the defeats.
Washington’s army had been driven from Long Island and New York City. Fort Washington would soon fall, taking…
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