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 Posted - April 15 2012 : 4:29:32 PM
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George Washington named Britain's greatest ever military opponent
Published April 15, 2012
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LONDON George Washington has been named Britain's greatest ever foe, according to the UK's National Army Museum.
The American Revolutionary War hero and the country's first president was the winner of a vote held at the museum Saturday to identify the Britain's most outstanding military opponent, The (London) Daily Telegraph reported.
The museum drew up a list of 20 candidates, which was whittled down to a shortlist of five. On Saturday, five historians presented the case for each commander to an audience of 70 guests at the west London museum who then voted.
Washington was named ahead of Michael Collins, who led Ireland to independence from the UK; France's Napoleon Bonaparte; Erwin Rommel, the German World War II commander; and Turkish World War I leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
To qualify for the vote, each commander had to come from the 17th century onwards -- the period covered by the museum's collection --- and had to have led an army in the field against the British, which excluded political enemies like Adolf Hitler.
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James N.
Colonial Militia
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Posted - April 16 2012 : 3:09:21 PM
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This reminds me that I've already read ( this year ) two recent books on Washington as a military commander, Washington's Secret War by Thomas Fleming ( 2005 ) and George Washington's FIRST WAR by David Clary ( 2011 ); subtitled His Early Military Adventures, the Clary book covers mainly OUR period, 1753 - 1759, whereas Fleming deals mainly with Valley Forge and its place in the Revolution. Both are certainly worthwhile, but Clary is probably of more interest to this particular topic since it deals with Washington's career AS a member of the British armed forces; indeed, if things had gone better for him in this respect, like Sir William Johnson, Washington might've adhered to the cause of King and Empire! Instead, he was continually thwarted by British conventions and prejudices against "colonial" officers. It's certainly ironic that as a teenager he hoped briefly to get an appointment as a midshipman in the British Navy!
Edit: I've added a review of George Washington's FIRST WAR in the Books section. |
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