Statistics for occurrence #1 of “New England” in chapter 27, page 417 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8:
...umerous, well disciplined, and well appointed army, with trains of artillery for a siege.
But congress, in its dread of a standing force, had no troops at all except on short enlistments; among the New England men who were the first to move, there was little aptness
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