Same Army 246 years later?
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I’m reading a book on George Washington’s army and can’t help but think that under similar wartime conditions this would certainly happen:
“Men spent much of their time playing cards until this practice took up so much time and generated so many arguments that all gambling was outlawed in the winter of 1777. It was eradicated after a woman who permitted some soldiers to live in her Morristown, New Jersey, home reported that one of them had become ill during a card game and was placed in his bed by the others, who went back to their card game. Twenty-four hours later, she found the private dead and the men still playing cards, oblivious to his condition.”
The First American Army: the untold story of George Washington and the men behind America’s first fight for freedom / Bruce Chadwick
I’ll take a bacon double cheeseburger with jalapeños and a double shot of Buffalo trace.
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