| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - For a man such as Washington, to be a laughingstock was the supreme insult, but the British were driven by other motives than to irritate the general???not least of them reluctance to give up a rich, fertile and beautiful land that, McCullough notes, was providing the world's highest standard of living in 1776.Thus the second most costly war in American history, whose outcome seemed little short
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