(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...
Washington And The Revolution
Washington And The Revolution
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Re: Washington And The Revolution
Washington won the war because of his spies. He also had a gay Prussian General who helped out.
Thank you History channel.
Thank you History channel.
Re: Washington And The Revolution
He wasn't gay...
He was a con artist, who just happened to be the sort of chap we needed...
He was a con artist, who just happened to be the sort of chap we needed...
Friedrich Wilhelm Augustin Ludolf Gerhard (Frederick William Augustus Henry Ferdinand) von Steuben also referred to as the Baron von Steuben,[1] (September 17, 1730 – November 28, 1794) was a Prussian aristocrat and military officer who served as inspector general and Major general of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He is credited with teaching the Continental Army the essentials of military drill and discipline, helping to guide it to victory. He wrote the Revolutionary War Drill Manual, the book that became the standard United States drill manual until the War of 1812, and served as General George Washington's chief of staff in the final years of the war