Colonial Campaigns Club (CCC)

<font color="yellow"><font face="Script MT Bold"><font size="5">2nd February 1775

Notwithstanding the pains which have been taken to prevent Spiritous liqours from being sold to the soldiers, Soldier wives and others find means to dispose of the New England Rum to them in such quantities, and at so cheap a rate, that numbers of them are intoxicated daily. some of them have sold spirits of so pernicious quality, that two men died in one night, affected by it in an extraordinary manner. The townspeople encourage this excessive drinking, as when the Soldiers are in a State of intoxication they are frequently induced to desert.</font id="size5"></font id="Script MT Bold"></font id="yellow">

<i><u>Source</u>:</i> <b>Diary of Frederick Mackenzie</b>--Giving a Daily Narrative of His Military Service as an Officer of the Regiment of the Royal Welch Fusiliers during the Years 1775-1781 in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New York (Cambridge-1930)

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Oh those wacky Welsh!

See Phil, Al got into the spirits again! What can I say? BRU HA HA HA!!!