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And then a miracle happened! Instead of capturing the English vessel and arresting its crew, the invaders merely ransacked it for anything of value and sailed boisterously out into the Atlantic. In the morning he boarded one of his ships loading wheat, ordered the captain to be ready to sail at noon, regardless of cargo, and by nightf ” So on the first of March, 1811, Thomas Applegarth, a farmer of Patamoke on the Eastern Shore, took off in a small sloop and headed for the present mouth of the Susquehanna River. a captured English sailor said defiantly, “When this war’s done, traitors like you and Ben Franklin will be hang

And when we heard that you were going on the stand, Pusey, we shuddered. Indeed, the young man was so distressed by the burning of his family’s masterpiece that he seemed willing to pro­ceed without a specific commission. ed, “We still have ’em!” as if he were a fisherman teasing an important catch closer to the rowboat so that a net could be dropped. nding his body, forcing water through his system and building up a considerable hydraulic pressure that slow