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Excerpt from The Part Borne by Sergeant John White Paul, of Col. John Topham's Regiment of the Rhode Island Brigade: In the Capture of Brigadier General Richard Prescott, Commander of the British Forces, Near Newport, in 1777
The character of a people, so far as it is an ex pression of positive and usual traits of individuals, is largely the result of political conditions; and some one, endeavoring to determine the relative values of these conditions, has remarked that certain qualities of American character, restless industry, ingenuity, firm yet audacious courage, and entire self-reliance - quali ties essential to industrial success - are so distinctively our own that European artists, accustomed to the hereditary subordination and discipline of an empire, cannot grasp the spirit that animates our armies.
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