Quote Originally Posted by Kilted Karl View Post
AHA!

Mr. Washington did loose many battles but "The race goes not to the swift nor the battle to the strong." History is not often made by majorities but by small and dedicated minorities, whether they be good or bad.

Your Obedient Servant,

Karl
True indeed. Don Higginbotham, in his excellent work George Washington and the American Military Tradition discusses how one of Washington's greatest desires was to obtain an officer's commission in the British Army. One wonders how different history would have been had the young officer of the Virginia Regiment obtained it?

I jest about being a Tory, but I do agree with William Pitt and Edmund Burke that the American colonies were lost due to gross mismanagement and stupidity, although it must be said that the average Englishman paid almost double the taxes the average American colonist did...but that's for another forum.

T.