Answer: The Spanish said the rafts were in the shape of the extended fingers of a hand. The large balsa logs, lashed together with henequen fiber, formed the main deck of a raft. Seawater passed freely between and over the logs making it very difficult for rafts to be swamped by heavy seas.
I believe it was because, that was such a great victory for the colonists over the British that after it was all over, everyone had heard about it. Hope this helps.
Thomas Paine - The pamphlet of Common Sense.
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purge victims or anyone that is in the law field