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PS: This was someone's 1807 guess at the size of the Great Dismal Swamp. What you see on modern maps is a reduced size from what it naturally was, and I hope this gives some sense of what a huge natural area it was!
December 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
PS: This was someone's 1807 guess at the size of the Great Dismal Swamp. What you see on modern maps is a reduced size from what it naturally was, and I hope this gives some sense of what a huge natural area it was!
Source: this excellent book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Barbara Tuchman!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/180840...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/180840...
The First Salute by Barbara W. Tuchman: 9780345336675 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Barbara W. Tuchman, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the classic The Guns of August, turns her sights homeward with this brilliant, insightful narrative of the Revolutionary War. In...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Source: this excellent book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Barbara Tuchman!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/180840...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/180840...