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You don't like having falsehoods exposed? Don't make 'em then.

I guess I should just accept that it's falsehood and fabrication to characterize a road who's construction and maintenance was overseen by military engineers, and who's major connecting points were military forts as a "military road". It obviously can be considered of no different character and in no different terms than the make-work projects of the New Deal.

Same citeless spinning.

WORDING OF THE FIRST PUBLIC DOCUMENT AUTHORIZING THE BEGINNING OF WORK ON THE NATIONAL ROAD
Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America.
To all who shall see these presents, GREETING. Know Ye, That in pursuance of the Act of Congress passed on the 29th of March, 1806, entitled "An Act to regulate the laying out and making a road from Cumberland in the State of Maryland to the State of Ohio" and reposing special Trust and Confidence in the Integrity, Diligence and Discretion of Eli Williams of Maryland, I have nominated and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate do appoint him a Commissioner in connection with Thomas Moore of Maryland, and Joseph Kerr of Ohio, for the purposes expressed in the said Act; and to Have and to Hold the said office, with all the powers, privileges and Emoluments to the same of right appertaining, during the pleasure of the President of the United States for the time being.
In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the Letters to be made patent and the Seal of the United States to be herewith affixed.
Given under my hand, at the City of Washington the Sixteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and seven; and of the Independence of the United States of America, the Thirty-first. (Recorded.)
TH. JEFFERSON,
By the President.
JAMES MADISON,
Secretary of State.

Pesky facts.

While we're waiting for you to find your imaginary "millitary road" cite:

So far as pathways of commerce contributed to the creation of this veritable new republic in the Middle West, the Cumberland Road and the Erie Canal, cooperating respectively with Ohio River and Lake Erie steamboats, were of the utmost importance. The national spirit, said to have arisen from the second war with England, had its clearest manifestation in the throwing of a great macadamized roadway across the Alleghanies to the Ohio River and the digging of the Erie Canal through the swamps and wildernesses of New York.
Both of these pathways were essentially the fruition of the doctrine to which Washington gave wide circulation in his letter to Harrison in 1784, wherein he pictured the vision of a vast Republic united by commercial chains.
--Archer B. Hulbert - The Paths of Inland Commerce