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“The many remarkable interpositions of the divine government, in the hours of our deepest distress and darkness, have been too luminous to suffer me to doubt the happy issue of the present contest.”

— George Washington

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Context

Letter to General Armstrong (26 March 1781), as quoted in The Religious Opinions and Character of Washington (1836) by Edward Charles McGuire, p. 122

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Washington, George. (n.d.). Wikiquote: George Washington. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Washington

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