"When I look down and see the prodigious fleet they have collected, the preparations they have made, and consider the vast expensed incurred, I can not help being astonished that [the British] should come 3,000 miles at such risk, trouble and expense to rob, plunder and destroy another people because they will not lay their lives and fortunes at their feet."
Joseph Reed, Chief Aid to General Washington, New York, Summer 1776
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