Stressful Christmas? At Least You’re Not Crossing the Delaware

By Ammoland

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Washington’s prospects were as bleak as Pennsylvania’s winter landscape. Only 15 percent of the men he commanded during the siege of Boston were still with him. Enlistments for many of these men would be up at the end of the year. Senior British commander William Howe supposed that if he left the Americans alone, they would all go home. As Washington’s army dissolved, the war would end. I suppose this idea put the King’s military commander in merry Christmas spirits.

What Howe did not factor into his calculation was the character of the American general, who I consider the greatest man in history—a position I defend in my latest book George Washington’s Mulatto Man: Who Was Billy Lee? (Commonwealth Books of Virginia tiny.cc/mwz06x ). Washington’s decisions in the last three weeks of December 1776 and the first week of 1777 illustrate the leadership qualities that earned him this exalted title.

Instead of giving up in the face of overwhelming odds, said William Dwyer, Washington determined to make “a bold stroke that might …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand