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Connecticut Rhyme By 1813 both the Press and Congress were getting upset with the performance of the US Army. With Napoleon now defeated in Russia, the idea that we could quickly capture Canada was melting away as fast as the winter snows of 1813. Benjamin Tallmadge, Congressman and former Major in the Continental Army, called our performance ". . . a disgrace." A Connecticut paper put the common people's feeling into rhyme: The Nation, pillaged of its fame
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