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Nice View British army Lt. George Gleig, on board the transport ship H.M.S. Golden Fleese, described the trip sailing up the Patuxent River in Maryland: "The sail . . . surpasses even that up the Thames, the woods are so fine, the cottages so beautiful, and the cultivation so rich." Yet they were more than happy to burn those buildings and destroy the farms.
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