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Colonial New Englanders Make Bad Sol- diers?" by F. W. Anderson, in The William and Mar\' Quarterly (July 1981), P.O. Box 220, Williamsburg, Va. 23185.
By the 1770s, many New England colonists were spoiling for a revolt that would rid Americans...