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RIDES AND DESTINATIONS

hen Thomas Paine said, “These are the times that try men’s souls,” he was referring to the American Revolution, and things were not going well. George Washington’s Continental Army had not a single victory at the time that Paine uttered those famous words. All that changed during 10 crucial days starting on

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