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Without his brilliance at espionage, the revolution could not have been won.

A curious discovery on the Florida seashore, when a water cannon destroyed a suspicious package later found to contain miniature portraits by the celebrated American painter Gilbert Stuart

In a century and a half, it has produced six sublime, increasingly expensive boats, and competition so ferocious that it's beginning to transcend national allegiances.

Two hundred years after his birth, Americans still revere him as a martyr and loathe him as a fanatical murderer. What was he?

Skirmishing about environmentalism may well continue forever, but the major war is over. It lasted far longer than most people realize.