These are the times that try men's souls.

The opening of The American Crisis, written on the retreat and read to the army before Trenton: the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot, entire.

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source	The American Crisis, Number I, December 19, 1776
typeface	Caslon
paper	100 lb cream cover, 24 x 18 (landscape)
press	Thomas Graphics, Austin, Texas
edition	—

The first two sentences of The American Crisis, Number I, published December 19, 1776 and read aloud to Washington's army before the crossing to Trenton. A pamphlet, a printer's product, that helped save the Revolution. The original sets the first word in capitals; the sheet normalizes it and says so here.

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