9. "A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood"
- Edmund Burke said that about another George who was using local militias, shipping them around the globe, to fight colonial wars.
So that George also found he couldn't conscript cisitzens or get them to enlist voluntarily very well either so he eventually hired mercenaries. Some of the mercenaries found they 'spoke the same language' as some of the fighters for the colonials at Yorktown and switched sides in the midst of a battle.
Interesting stuff these colonial wars.
As a nation founded upon precepts of anti-colonialism we sure live in interesting times.
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