Mr. Civics lesson? Roger Sherman with my auto pen. Yeah, that's. I regret that I have but one life to give or lose for my country. Nathan Aile. Thank you. We were known as the Provision State. That's how George Washington thought about us, because we made a lot of stuff and grew a lot of things that the Revolutionary army needed desperately. The British took us on for that reason, destroyed a lot of our supply depots, including down in Danbury, early on. Then they were coming up through Ridgefield, Connecticut, early in the Revolution. (25:14–25:26)
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Asserts that Connecticut was known as the Provision State for supplying the Revolutionary army.
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