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I'd sent this in before, a Mrs Day, a patient's wife near the living you know what our of William Cunningham with a broom when he hauled down the British flag, scroll to the bottom, you'll see the story...God, I just LOVE this one, I've been DYING to also see it filmed, you know!
End of the Revolutionary War
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Thank you sir for the great history share, have a great Independence Day sir.
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A comic turn, showing a woman of courage and determination. But is that Cunningham identified as the war criminal who murdered the American prisoners in the prison ships of New York?
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Capt Daniel Goodman
That's an interesting point...there were two other Brit go-to who did the ship murders, though he knew about them, apparently, he handled the Army prisoners, they handled the naval ones, though Elias Boudinot apparently confronted Cunningham with his Brit superior...Washington sent a letter saying if the tortures didn't stop, he's start in on the Brit prisoners in kjnd, he probably wouldn't habe, however, he apparently got the Brute attention enough to get them to ease off, at least slightly, I think, though the article didn't go into that...if actually found a descendant of the guy who did the Tomb of the Martyrs a d the collecting of the bones washing up onshore by Walkabout Bay near where the Brooklyn Navy Yard was, he ran a curio shop, he had a pub in their old stodk, listing that Cunningham wrote up a list of Army prisoners given to Washington when the Brute surrendered and left, I'd always loved finding that, blew my mind when I'd realized I'd hit historical paydirt....
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