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George Washington was an 'illiterate LIAR who cheated his way to the top, wore dentures made from hippo ivory, and beat his slaves', new biography claims
UK Daily Mail ^ | February 16, 2020 | Frances Mulraney

Posted on 02/16/2020 4:37:25 AM PST by C19fan

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To: Revolutionary

I seem to recall several instances of that being reported - holes in his jacket during the Revolutionary War.

One of my favorite stories is where a dog wandered into his camp. On its collar it said it belonged to the British General Howe - it had gotten lost in the battle.

Washington sent the dog back under a flag of truce.

https://dannysullivan.com/george-washington-the-return-of-general-howes-dog-296


121 posted on 02/17/2020 3:42:48 AM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: nicollo

I am in through Martha’s first husband, a Parks, on my mother’s side. not blood, I know, but it gets the family there. George was highly educated and a deeply committed Christian. The idiot author is another marxist dupe.


122 posted on 02/17/2020 4:06:09 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (A deep and terrible ignorance born of abject corruption is required to hate our president.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Hippo ivory?

That’s very rare..................


123 posted on 02/17/2020 6:14:31 AM PST by Red Badger (CWII is coming. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: C19fan
George Washington was...

The agenda goes something like this....George Washington was... (fill in the blank)

To control a people you must first control what they think about themselves and how they regard their history and culture. And when your conqueror makes you ashamed of your culture and your history, he needs no prison walls and no chains to hold you. John Henrik Clarke

124 posted on 02/17/2020 9:28:49 AM PST by MosesKnows
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To: C19fan
An all too familiar goal of the communists:

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man.

125 posted on 02/17/2020 9:39:28 AM PST by Kudsman (Im trying to love the tolerant left. They make it very hard to do.)
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To: C19fan

If they hate it here so much please go elsewhere..


126 posted on 02/17/2020 9:54:06 AM PST by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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I’m sorry Alexis, I didn’t know hippos were an endangered
specie in the 1700s...


127 posted on 02/17/2020 9:56:08 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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