"Men, yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and ten pence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight, the American flag floats from yonder hill, or Molly Stark sleeps a widow."
General John Stark, August 16, 1777
Before the Battle of Bennington
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You forgot the final part of the speech ... "But be weary, for many yonder Hessians were conscripted and have their pay confiscated by the German aristocracy and if a conscripted man's head be separated from his shoulders by a cannonball or unusually large musket shot, he will come back to haunt any high-nosed pedagogue that dares crosseth a bridge twixt the witching hour."
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