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| Tango01 | 29 Jun 2015 11:23 a.m. PST |
… of the American Revolution. "This date in 1777 saw the public execution of "John the Painter" — a Scotsman who had been christened "James Aitken" at his birth less than 25 years before, but who had run through countless aliases in his adult life as a (mostly) petty thief. But this man was not a hapless victim of England's Bloody Code, although he often enough offended the capital statutes against petty property crime. Rather, the scraggly redhead with the thick Scottish brogue was the author of a stunning act of domestic terrorism, in England, in freelance support of the rebellious American colonies an ocean away…"
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