Fort Richardson

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    How often we read that the enemy occupied a position which commanded the old, and so the fort was evacuated! Have not the school-house and the printing-press occupied a position which commands such a fort as this?
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
    —Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)