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Spying in the american revolution: What is a deserter?

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Deserters taken in arms with the enemy were most often sentenced to death. In 1780 George Washington pardoned a number of his deserters who had joined the NJ Volunteers and other Loyalist units. These men had been taken prisoner by his army afterwards and sentenced to death.

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