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My View:
Lieutenant Frederick Mackenzie:
"Many houses were plundered by the soldiers.... I have no doubt this inflamed the Rebels, and made many of them follow us farther than they would otherwise have done... some soldiers who staid too long in the houses were killed in the very act of plundering by those who lay concealed in them."
-- British soldier Frederick Mackenzie, diary entry, April 1775 |