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He grew up modest in the US, but he met a wealthy widow and married her. When the revolutionary war was not going well for supporters of the empire such as he was, he took off to Europe, never to meet her again.
> He grew up modest in the US, but he met a wealthy widow and married her. When the revolutionary war was not going well for supporters of the empire such as he was, he took off to Europe, never to meet her again.