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In "George Roberts Twelves Hewes, A Patriot Shoemaker of Boston," Alfred F. Young argues that the soldiers during this time were very ruthless. They didn't care about the people in the town because they thought they were the best and had the most authority so they could do whatever they wanted to do. Hewes was a shoemaker who first started off in the story by fixing a shoe for John Hancock. I was a big honor for him to do this. In the years between 1768 and 1775 he became a citizen which means that he participated in the events that led to the Revolution. Hewes made a pair of shoes for whom he thought was for Captain Thomas Preston, but another soldier picked them up and never paid. Young showed that the soldiers thought they could get anything because they were keeping everyone safe. Hewes later confronted the soldier and a military hiring was held. The soldier received three hundred and fifty lashings for this crime. If Hewes would have known that this would have been the......

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