Joseph Cotterill @jsphctrl.ft.com · 24d America: one of those revolutions where the freedom fighters brought their ferocious ideological fervour for liberty to bear on the battlefield, specifically in the form of liberty to run away from that battlefield. (This was quite a logical response to being in a C18th army tbf.)
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It says a lot about the American Revolution that they considered setting up those commissar-style folks who shoot the deserters fleeing to the rear, but apparently thought better of it most of the time