On Presidents’ Day, news was “heard ’round the world” about a rare Revolutionary War-era George Washington letter in which he expresses his confidence in local militiamen and predicts that every time the British attack, the “country will recur to arms.”
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Written from Washington’s camp at Morristown, New Jersey, the letter particularly appealed to media there.
But reports on the letter also came in from as far away as France.
