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  • Washington did not rescue Paine from French imprisonment

    04/16/2019 11:59:39 AM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 42 replies
    Real Clear History ^ | Dec 28, 2017 | William Hogeland
    George Washington refused to come to the rescue when the pamphleteer who put him on his high horse faced the guillotine... Citizen Thomas Paine, whose pamphlet Common Sense helped ignite the American Revolution, was an enthusiastic early supporter of the French Revolution. He received a hero’s welcome when he arrived in Paris in 1792 and was even granted honorary French citizenship and a seat in the National Convention, the body charged with writing a constitution for the new republic. But Paine angered Maximilien Robespierre and other Jacobin extremists when he urged the Convention to spare the life of the deposed...