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Tarring and feathering is something that has come down to us as an almost kind of comical thing because you see these people with chicken feathers on them.

But this is hideous stuff.

boiling pitch is poured onto somebody's skin.

The burns are unbelievable.

And it's all part also of a kind of spectacle of violence that is a really important part of this.

And this is why the feathers are put on in part.

It's that you are trying to humiliate and shame the victim.

Washington wanted every man in his newly reorganized army to undergo formal military training to end what he called the confusion that had too often undercut its performance on the battlefield.

The man he picked to oversee that task was a newcomer to America.

Friedrich, Wilhelm, Ludolf, Gerhard, August, Heinrich, Ferdinand von Steuben.

Alexander Hamilton was concerned that an unprincipled man would mount the hobby horse of popularity and throw things into confusion.

In a government like ours, he would write, no one is above the law.