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    A SON OF THE REVOLUTION

    Oct 01, 2022 4 minutes
    by Duane Damon

    Dark clouds of smoke spiraled into the sky over Breed’s Hill as cannon roared. A patriot force clung grimly to the hill’s heights as red-jacketed British troops charged up the slope. Not far away, Charlestown lay in flames. Seven-year-old John Quincy Adams watched in fearful awe. He and his mother, Abigail Adams, had a distant view of the raging battle from a hill near their home in Braintree, Massachusetts.

    It was June 1775. Friends and relatives soon fled Boston to take refuge in the Adams home. John Quincy was too young to fight in the Revolutionary War (1775–1783), but

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