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Old Salt
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Location: Vista, Ca. | Subject: Interesting even tho NSR
I'm reading the Washington biography by Ron Chernow. And I'm at the point of wintering over at Valley Forge. Apparently (as shown through out the book) Washington was not abject to lashes for punishment. At this point Chernow discusses how Washington was not happy that the locals were selling food to the British (because they paid with solid sterling) but he detested that his troops would steal from the farmers. So punishment was dealt and men were lashed to posts and given a bullet to bite on during the lashings. A forage through the internet gives a number of "supposed" origins of the phrase not one of which is Chernow's. For some reason on a lazy Sunday, I just find this truly pondering - fly on the wall like. Bet there was no bullet biting in the sub force. |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1814
Location: Boydton, Virginia | Subject: RE: Interesting even tho NSR
I've said it a thousand times.... "You must judge a person from the times within which he lived."
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 3673
Location: Kansas City Missouri | Subject: RE: Interesting even tho NSR
https://www.loc.gov/collections/george-washington-papers/about-this-collection/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bite_the_bullet
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