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We have a wretched motley crew, in the fleet; the marines the refuse of every regiment, and the seamen, few of them, ever wet with salt water.

— Benedict Arnold

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Let me die in this old uniform in which I fought my battles. May God forgive me for ever having put on another.

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The drafts from the regiments at Ticonderoga are a miserable set; indeed the men on board the fleet, in general, are not equal to half their number of good men.

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