My hero is George Washington, who had great courage, intelligence and a moral comitment to the freedom of the American people.
He led an ill-trained, poorly equipped and outnumbered Army of volunteers against the best quality army in the world at the time, the British, who also enjoyed faster communications and transport via their fleet along the Atlantic seaboard. He had to prevent the British from joining forces along the Hudson valley in New York and thus split the young colonies from their most industrialized and wealthy source of supply, New England. He acheived this by aggressively attacking the British along their perimeter while keeping mobile enough to evde their attempts to anihilate his forces. He left his subordinate the role of repelling the British from the upper Hudson River at the battle of Sratoga, while he continued to harrass theBritish inthe South.
In a fast force march, he moved to Yorktown to trap Cornwallis and capture about a third of British forces, and destroyed the British will to fight on.
Later, he successfully implemented the American Constitutional form of government as President and rejected repeatedly attempts to make him a monarch or dictator. His two successful terms as President set the pattern for later presidents.
Washington is generally ignored by military historians because he was not a megalomaniac like most military figures. If Napoleon, Lenin, or Hitler had half the humility of Washington, France, Russia,a nd Germany would have been much happier nations today.
That Washington led us in our revolution and the earliest years of our nations growth is the single most important reason that we are the nation that we are today.
He led an ill-trained, poorly equipped and outnumbered Army of volunteers against the best quality army in the world at the time, the British, who also enjoyed faster communications and transport via their fleet along the Atlantic seaboard. He had to prevent the British from joining forces along the Hudson valley in New York and thus split the young colonies from their most industrialized and wealthy source of supply, New England. He acheived this by aggressively attacking the British along their perimeter while keeping mobile enough to evde their attempts to anihilate his forces. He left his subordinate the role of repelling the British from the upper Hudson River at the battle of Sratoga, while he continued to harrass theBritish inthe South.
In a fast force march, he moved to Yorktown to trap Cornwallis and capture about a third of British forces, and destroyed the British will to fight on.
Later, he successfully implemented the American Constitutional form of government as President and rejected repeatedly attempts to make him a monarch or dictator. His two successful terms as President set the pattern for later presidents.
Washington is generally ignored by military historians because he was not a megalomaniac like most military figures. If Napoleon, Lenin, or Hitler had half the humility of Washington, France, Russia,a nd Germany would have been much happier nations today.
That Washington led us in our revolution and the earliest years of our nations growth is the single most important reason that we are the nation that we are today.
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