Thomas Paine begins publishing the American Crisis essays: “These are the times that try men’s souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”

       [restored 7/24/2021]

Subsequent Events:

12/26/1776                   3/13/1791                  9/15/1792

Authority:

unanimous Declaration (of Independence), Paragraph 2
ccc-2point0.com/ unanimous Declaration

References:

The American Crisis – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Crisis

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,190,276,558,466

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