Its a long and tragic story about a once wealthy family which owned vast tracts of land in the Mohawk Valley of northern New York but lost everything after 1775 because they supported the Crown against a proto-Marxist insurrection which would not have succeeded if Britain had not been stabbed in the back by the wretched French. In the end, however, the Side of Right prevailed on 18 June 1815 when the latest incarnation of Gallic imperialism was defeated once and for all.
At least that's my story and I am sticking to it.
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