EPISODE · Aug 19, 2026 · 2 MIN
Not Making It Easy–August 19, 1776
from 250 and Counting
The reason that this portrait—and most of the others—of Rufus Putnam is in profile is that, when he was a child, one of his eyes was disfigured in an accident, giving it a, “outward, oblique cast.” Putnam joined the Revolutionary War effort the very first day, after the battle at Lexington and Concord. During the […] The post Not Making It Easy–August 19, 1776 appeared first on 250 and Counting.
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