"Don White" wrote in message
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Interesting article in todays paper.
After George W. getting a Maritime welcome last fall in Halifax, letters
have been found written by George Washington showing dismay at the way
loyalists treated here.
see http://www.herald.ns.ca/stories/2005.../f265.raw.html


From your link
"A letter by George Washington portraying Halifax as a fate worse than
death......"

True in 1776. True now.