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To: NelsTandberg

...and General George Washington won the Revolutionary War at 52.


48 posted on 10/12/2014 6:50:15 AM PDT by KOZ.
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To: KOZ.

“...and General George Washington won the Revolutionary War at 52.”

He did not.

The American War of Independence contained exactly one American strategic victory (the Battles of Saratoga), and George Washington played no part in it, as he was hundreds of miles away at the time.

His great successes lay in (a) not getting flattened by the British, and (b) preventing the spontaneous disintegration of American forces.

All of which bought time until American diplomats (like Benjamin Franklin, Silas Deane, John Adams) brought in the French. Spain allied itself with France; presented with this three-way worldwide conflict, the British judged the strategic problem insoluble and cut their losses, letting their American colonies go.

Thus it is more accurate to say George Washington did not lose the AWI. Still a great accomplishment.


87 posted on 10/12/2014 12:42:46 PM PDT by schurmann
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