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One Day’s Difference

July 2024
1min read


In “The Time Machine” in your December issue, you indicate that George Washington said farewell to his officers at Fraunces Tavern on “Friday, the fourth” of December 1783. This must have required some doing, since up here in Connecticut December 4, 1783, was a Thursday.

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