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| | | Subject: There you go, Gen. Pulaski!
Posted Dec 10, 2001 by Jimi X
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  | | I've always found Washington to have been an inept commander.
Luckily for the USA, the British generals he was facing were equally inept (if not more so)!
He had tremendous personal courage and I really think that pulled him out of a lot of tough scrapes.
In the near future, I'm planning to write a little entry about his first defeat during the French and Indian War in western Pennsylvania at a little place called Fort Necessity.
Anyone who would build a fort in a swamp surrounded by wooded highlands that are within musket range isn't what I'd characterize as a military genius.
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| | | Subject: There you go, Gen. Pulaski!
Posted Dec 11, 2001 by  Tonsil Revenge
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| | (and a big tip of the hat to Casimir)
Yes, as the old joke goes, 'military intelligence' is....
I think old 'Red' was able to rise above much of the later politics because he had survived the war and the effects of both congress and local politics upon it. He found himself in one of those 'entry level positions' where you have to learn 'on the job' and he was in charge!
And then there was that thing, y'know, about, um....(looks nervously over each shoulder, draws blinds and types fast) officers....
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