Posted on 07/04/2017 2:32:11 PM PDT by Eagles Field
I always savor the insight Freeper History Buffs offer, especially the spirited difference in opinion. The easy answers are Washington, Jefferson, the like. Who are the ones unsung, where the tide may not have turned without?
The high point that Washington fortified was Dorchester Heights.
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Yeah, but I couldn’t decide if it should be pronounced Door-chester like by normal people, or Dooster like what Bostonians probably pronounce it, going by Worchester being Wooster.
So I decided to leave that part out. A high point is just pronouced as a high point. No confusion.
Culper Sr.
Don’t call me Shirley or Francis
There was a series of American history biography books we had in the elem. school library. Loved ‘em.
> The commanders at Cowpens and Kings Mountain who liberated the South from British control.
My family had 2 brothers who were at the Battles of Cowpens and Kings Mountain. From accounts I have heard, Kings mountain was so brutal and so many British died there that it was a half dozen years before anyone could return to the site of the battle. Hungry wolves descended on the battlefield and stayed until all the corpses were gone. Then they hung around the area for several years after.
Disney wanted to reproduce the Davy Crockett hit with Swamp Fox, but I guess it’s better for Nielsen that it didn’t and typecast him like Fess Parker.
I know what you mean...I read more about the Revolution than the Civil War...
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The Russians for their interference in the war?
Dang Russians...
Daniel Morgan at Cowpens, Benjamin Cleveland at Kings Mountain, and Nathanial Greene for the over all southern strategy that forced Cornwallis back to Yorktown.
Robert Morris. No question about it.
Daniel Morgan. Nathaniel Greene. Francis Marion.
I’m going with Washington if only one can be made. All of them together created one force of nature - a true miracle arranged by God. It’s chilling to even try to comprehend it.
And your conviction seems like so much fiction. The point being, is that Jefferson had just a tad to do with the success of The Revolution. But you knew that, didn’t you. And I have no doubt you’re a patriot and wish you a happy 4th as well.
The Marquise de Lafayette.
His wagon caught fire in the French and Indian War.
Lol!
After Washington, of course, and speaking in terms of military figures, Nathaniel Greene immediately comes to mind as a potential "Second Least Expendable"—and that's despite his enormous blunder at Fort Washington during the New York campaign of 1776, where he convinced Washington he could hold the fort. Instead, the entire bloated garrison was surrendered, decimating the Continental army and resulting in thousands of Patriot POWs.
In "The American Revolution in the South" by Henry Lee—Robert E. Lee's father, and a superb Revolutionary officer in his own right—we see—via firsthand accounts—how Greene's masterful out-generaling of Cornwallis throughout the South was absolutely key to engineering the ultimate fate that Cornwallis met at Yorktown.
Had Greene not replaced Gates after that general's crushing defeat at Camden, the outcome in the South would likely have been equally disastrous.
Thinking in terms of the earlier part of the Revolution, I'd have to say Samuel Adams was indispensable, so he'd be another candidate for "2nd least expendable".
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