{"id":215,"date":"2026-10-22T12:55:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T12:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/?page_id=215"},"modified":"2026-10-22T14:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:23:12","slug":"farewell","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/course-syllabus\/farewell\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Martin Remembers<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;Thus a poor fellow, who had braved the hardships and perils of the war till the very close of it, &#8216;died as a fool dieth,&#8217; causing his own death by his folly.&#8221; (169)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I confess, after all, that my anticipation of the happiness I should experience upon such a day as this was not realized.&nbsp; I can assure the reader that there was as much sorrow as joy transfused on the occasion.&#8221; (172)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been said by some that ought to have been better employed that the Revolutionary army was needless; that the militia were competent for all that the crisis required.&#8221;&nbsp; (178)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Hollywood on the Revolutionary War:&nbsp; &#8220;The Patriot&#8221; (2000)<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hKqUhYYhBDQ?si=ljCK0M-MH1BWvfcX\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Remembers &#8220;Thus a poor fellow, who had braved the hardships and perils of the war till the very close of it, &#8216;died as a fool dieth,&#8217; causing his own death by his folly.&#8221; (169) &#8220;I confess, after all, that my anticipation of the happiness I should experience upon such a day as this was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":20,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-215","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/215\/revisions\/219"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}