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The American Idea: Thomas Willing: The Revolution’s Forgotten Financier
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When we think of the American Revolution, we usually consider the ideas and animated the patriots and those leaders who organized and directed the war. Largely forgotten in all of this is a simple question: how was it all financed? And who did it? Thomas Willing, one of the most prominent merchants of the Middle […]