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• n  the American army during the American Revolution

• Continental Army

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• Imagine That: In which direction did the Fickle Finger of Fate point you?
  Mark Twain created a character called Absalom Jones, "the greatest military genius our world ever produced." Absalom was a Massachusetts bricklayer who tried to enlist in the Continental Army as a private more than once, but was rejected because he’d lost both thumbs in an accident. Mark Twain implied he otherwise would have swiftly risen in rank and gone on to defeat the British to end the ...
  July 17, 2013 - The Record