The Philadelphia Mutiny was an uprising of soldiers who threatened the Continental Congress in the waning days of the Revolutionary War.
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The Philadelphia Mutiny was an uprising of soldiers who threatened the Continental Congress in the waning days of the Revolutionary War.
Had you asked around in the late eighteenth century, these men would have been expected to better known to posterity.
John Dickinson was decidedly against independence, yet remains one of the most important American Founders.
John Dickinson could not be kept out of politics long. His country needed him, and he reluctantly obliged.
John Dickinson's ideas for the direction of America did not immediately coincide with declaring independence. His actions in early July 1776 may have hurt his reputation, but it left him with a clean conscience.
John Dickinson was one of the most important members of the Founding Generation. Without him, there is no America.