America Goes to War: A Social History of the Continental Army - Charles Patrick Neimeyer - Google Books

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One of the images Americans hold most dear is that of the drum-beating, fire-eating Yankee Doodle Dandy rebel, overpowering his British adversaries through sheer grit and determination. The myth of the classless, independence-minded farmer or hard-working…