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PP-P.781.057
7 Jul 1781:22 (10/752)
From the London Courant, January 1781. [Letter commenting
on the slaughter committed by the Tories]
. . . [8 paragraphs on examples]
The custom of burning people alive in towns, villages,
houses, and barracks, is now become so familiar to the
British soldiery in North America, that it raises no wonder
in those who read of such uncommon acts of such savage
brutality. This is a practice of which I never read before
these accounts of American conflagrations, except in Dr.
Johnson's tour through the Hebrides, where he relates the
history of one Clan shutting another in a church and setting
it on fire; while the piper played a particular tune, which
is handed down to late posterity, in commemoration of this
glorious victory.
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