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Midnight Bayonets at Stony Point: “If the Cause Was Worth Fighting For, Men Must Fight.”

No man dare speak. They crept through the woods and marshland, silently lowering themselves into the water, knowing if their musket fell from their shoulder, or they hesitated even a moment, orders demanded they be speared to death. And with still a hundred yards to go before reaching the abattis of sharpened stakes that blocked …