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To: Golden Eagle

What I have read suggests that Morris’s associate Haym Salomon deserves much of the credit for financing the revolution. In particular, when George Washington urgently needed $20,000 to march his army to Yorktown in August 1781, it was Salomon who provided the money after Morris couldn’t. And when victory was won, Washington asked Salomon what he wanted as a reward. The reply was “Nothing for me, something for my people”. Reportedly Washington then ordered that that the 13 stars on the Great Seal of the United States be arranged as a Star of David, and so it has been since 1782. Haym Salomon himself was never repaid, and died in poverty 3 years later.


108 posted on 02/18/2023 5:56:56 PM PST by devere
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To: devere

Sounds like they both sacrificed their fortunes for this nation, and died broke. It will take sacrifices like that, again, or the nation will be lost.


110 posted on 02/18/2023 6:00:53 PM PST by Golden Eagle (The LGBT indoctrination agenda is designed to outlaw the Bible, and anyone who believes it.)
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