George Washington: First In War And Peace by Nancy Nahra Willard Sterne Randall

Author:Nancy Nahra, Willard Sterne Randall,
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: HISTORY / United States / General
ISBN: 9781612305790
Publisher: New Word City, Inc.
Published: 2012-03-21T04:30:00+00:00

After years of living on a limited diet, Washington also suffered ill health alongside his men. His teeth had caused him pain and embarrassment since his first extraction at age 22, after the Fort Necessity fiasco. By the 1770s, the Boston goldsmith, Paul Revere, was supplying him with porcelain dentures. Early in June 1781, British agents intercepted a secret message from Washington that had been sent to New York. “A day or two ago,” Washington wrote through the lines to his dentist, “I applied to you for a pair of pincers to fasten the wire of my teeth. I now wish you would send me one of your scrapers, as my teeth stand in need of cleaning.”

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