Washington And The Revolution
Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 11:38 pm
(I was going to post this in Strop's "we're off" thread...
But in light of the time of year, I felt it deserved its own thread:)
Washington lost the vast majority of the fights in which he engaged his troops, as Commander Of The Continental Army...
He perfected...(as a result of neccessity) the doctrine of "strategic retreat"....(He retreated from Boston, he retreated from New York...he even retreated from Philadelphia. (Even Mao Zedong once described how much he admired Washington's concept of "strategic retreat"... )
1776 (though now we celebrate it as The Year Of The Birth Of Our Nation) was an awful year for the cause of American Independence...1777 was even worse....
On more than one occasion, he saw his "army" almost completely disintegrate, and he kept it's remnants going through the sheer strength of his own personality...
He lost battle, after battle, always on the run...
Until the very end....
And then, at the end of the day, when he had finally turned the tide of battle, and could have seized power for himself, (like Oliver Cromwell)
He refused to do it....
That takes a man of singular quality...
But in light of the time of year, I felt it deserved its own thread:)
Washington lost the vast majority of the fights in which he engaged his troops, as Commander Of The Continental Army...
He perfected...(as a result of neccessity) the doctrine of "strategic retreat"....(He retreated from Boston, he retreated from New York...he even retreated from Philadelphia. (Even Mao Zedong once described how much he admired Washington's concept of "strategic retreat"... )
1776 (though now we celebrate it as The Year Of The Birth Of Our Nation) was an awful year for the cause of American Independence...1777 was even worse....
On more than one occasion, he saw his "army" almost completely disintegrate, and he kept it's remnants going through the sheer strength of his own personality...
He lost battle, after battle, always on the run...
Until the very end....
And then, at the end of the day, when he had finally turned the tide of battle, and could have seized power for himself, (like Oliver Cromwell)
He refused to do it....
That takes a man of singular quality...
