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George Washington: He Went Home to His Farm
He won the war, he had the army, and every man in history who had done both had made himself a king. He went home to his farm instead.
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Mercy Otis Warren: The Woman Who Wrote a Revolution Without Her Name
She wrote the words that helped start a revolution. She wrote them without her name on them, because the era did not permit a woman to write politics under her own name, and she had things to say that could not wait for the era to change.
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Lafayette: Liberty, Washington and the Prison at Olmütz
The British killed his father before he could walk. He spent the rest of his life making them pay for it. He never called it revenge. He called it liberty. The distinction mattered to him enormously. Whether it was a distinction is a different question.