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To: Hostage
To his enemies he was either a dim country bumpkin

Considering his service as a British office, including service as a senior American aide to British General Edward Braddock at age 23 and with intelligence on his growth as a man and a politician and figure of power and wealth, that is unlikely.

7 posted on 11/08/2014 10:33:31 PM PST by ansel12 (The churlish behavior of Obama over the next two years is going to be spellbinding.)
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To: ansel12

In the early part of the war, he was beaten back and much of his army had deserted him. The British Aristocracy scoffed, smirked at his abilities, his reputation and his ‘place’. He used that underestimation of him to his advantage.


8 posted on 11/08/2014 10:38:40 PM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: ansel12

Also, Washington’s father was a tobacco farmer and Washington has grown up on his father’s plantation. Washington later became a land surveyor which served him immensely in his career as a British spy and also in helping keep his troops in service during the way.

Washington was never a polished urban dweller with high education and title.

As you say he was only 23 at the time of his service in the year French and Indian war and he was looking to improve his lot in life via the military.

His selection by the British as an expeditionary and spy was factored on his skills as a land surveyor. He surveyed tracts of land in what was called the ‘wilderness’ at the time which was fixed around the Ohio territories. His commission as a British officer was primarily to act as land surveyor and also as a spy to report back on French troop strength and other items of interest to the British. So the spying and land surveying went hand in hand.

What many people don’t know is that Washington’s tract surveys of Midwest territories were used later as payment to officers and men of the Continental Army in lieu of currency as there was not money to pay the army.

The tracts of land given out by George Washington to persons of the Continental Army still exist in inheritance records on the eastern seaboard and are used by some genealogists to trace family migrations from east to west and with great success.


11 posted on 11/08/2014 11:13:48 PM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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