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Washington's
Cruisers
There once stood an elm tree at the corner of Essex Street and
Orange Street in Boston, Massachusetts, under which a group of
men calling themselves the "Sons of Liberty" met to
protest the notorious British Stamp Act sometime during 1765.
From that time onward, the tree was popularly called the "Liberty
Tree." In 1775, the British seized Boston, cut down the tree
and used it for firewood. Flags bearing the symbol of the "Liberty
Tree" almost immediately began to appear. So it is no wonder
that when, in the fall of that same year, George Washington outfitted
a squadron of six schooners at his own expense, he fittingly used
the symbol of the tree and his own personal prayer to the Lord
with the phrase, "An Appeal to Heaven." |
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