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The year before he wrote about preparedness to the President of the Continental Congress: "Had we formed a permanent army in the beginning we should never have had to retreat across the Delaware in 1776 trembling for the fate of America. . . We should not have been the greatest part of the war inferior to the enemy, indebted for our safety to their inactivity, enduring frequently the mortification of seeing inviting opportunities to ruin them pass unimproved for want of a force which the country was completely able to attord"

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