Professor John McCurdy
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They split the difference, right?
The army –
Orders him to receive no pay for six months.
Reverend Newburgh gets to receive no pay for six months, which is pretty gruesome.
But, you know, an officer can't be disciplined sort of more harshly than that.
The worst thing you can do to an officer is take his commission away, which they don't do.
He doesn't lose the case completely.
The court is clear.
They say, well, there's been all the speculation about what may or may not happen.
We are going to take no position on that.
That's not been proven.
But they do find that he's been disrespectful to his commanding officer and to other officers.
Right.
He transfers to another unit and he fights in the or, you know, is a chaplain in the British Army in the 15th Regiment for another couple of years.
Ends up in the Caribbean ministering to troops down there.
And I think it's in 1779 when he retires.
So back in the day, if you were an officer in the British Army and you retired, you would get half pay for life, which I really would like to have a retirement plan like that.
So he retires.
He goes back to Ireland, lives out a long life, dies in the 1820s.
I researched this guy for several years.
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