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tom s
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tom s asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 8 years ago

Who is this American Revolutionary?

During the American revolution there was a private on the American side. He scouting the enemy or something when a bullet went wizzing by him and scratched his cheek. His mom found and and was upset and said something like "if that shot had been one inch to the left you would have died", to which he replied "and if it had been one inch to the right I wouldn't have this scratch".

What was this soldiers name?

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  • 8 years ago
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    Peter Francisco?

  • 8 years ago

    I'm sorry to say, this sounds like an apocryphal story, and can probably just be meant as a composite of the American Patriot's attitude at the time.

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