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Robert Morris

In Pierre Landais the Continental Navy had its own real-life Commander Queeg. His tour as master of the Alliance was a nightmare wilder than any a novelist could invent

Skillful money-juggling by America’s first financier aided the new nation but led Morris himself to utter ruin

 

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