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To: Diana in Wisconsin
“he didn’t have any visible injuries to his skeletal structure, which means it was probably a soft tissue injury—maybe a bayonet,” Peacock says.

Or he died of disease. Typhus and dysentery were very common among Revolutionary War soldiers.

9 posted on 07/13/2026 7:19:12 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88

Good point.

I had a thought and looked it up: I had no idea that cholera hadn’t yet been introduced to at least North America in the late 18th century.

Interesting...


11 posted on 07/13/2026 7:27:45 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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