Jumat, 29 September 2017

Thomas Paine’s Revolutionary Reckoning

George Washington refused to come to the rescue when the pamphleteer who put him on his high horse faced the guillotine. On December 28, 1793, at the height of the Reign of Terror in France, Paris police rousted Thomas Paine in the cold hours before dawn, arrested him as a “foreign conspirator” and locked him …

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