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Eli Anderson senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marsha

Buskey Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College. He's also the man with an official website,

the Blade of Perseus the web address is Victor Hansen.com. I'll tell you more

about that later in this episode which is a special episode.

It's the listener provided questions and you fair listeners have been really wonderful sending

in questions.

And I've got four questions to pose to Victor today,

some about the founding, some about military history,

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