When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty thousand people in it - it practically lifted me out of my chair.
-- David McCullough
   
David McCullough   Name:
David McCullough
Type:
Historian
Nationality:
American
Birth:
July 7, 1933
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