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To: Pharmboy

In the histories I have read - mostly “old” histories - Springfield is regarded as nothing more than a skirmish, or almost an aborted battle. Monmouth is shown not only as the biggest battle, period, but the last “major” battle in the north. Springfield seems to be “minor”.


15 posted on 06/25/2010 11:05:34 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
Some place Knyphausen's men at 6,000 at Springfield; the CiC of the British forces (Clinton) was there too with another serious force of Brits. We had 1,500 men.

A "skirmish?" LOL!! You should burn those history books (or maybe use them for wadding as the good minister might have)...

17 posted on 06/25/2010 12:59:18 PM PDT by Pharmboy (The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
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