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Old 07-13-08, 10:54 AM   #33 (permalink)
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Thread Starter Re: The Road to American Independence: John Adams' Observations

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Originally Posted by Bodhisattva View Post
My goal was to prove that Washington did, in fact, order some of his troops to launch a terror campaign against civilians...

I have other instances where there are implied commands to terrorize, torture peoples in order to gain advantage.
"Implied" commands that are subject to revisionist interpretation do not cut the muster. One needs explicit commands that stand up to scrutiny to prove the hypothesis. I am not aware of any express commands whereby Washington specifically directed his troops to kill civilians.
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