re: Another Civlil War Question

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North didn’t have a 3000 mile supply line and a lack of familiarity with the geography

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They also didn’t have the world’s largest, most trained army and a broke frick enemy that was supported by less than half the population.

The colonists had little chance of beating Britain, but they did. Truly one of the more remarkable victories in human history. And for the record there’s no individual more responsible for that than that guy George Washington... which is why lots of stuff is named after ole GW


And for the record, Alexander Hamilton - G-Dub’s right hand man - was the guy who truly saw and developed the plan to win. And his genius was that it wasn’t militarily; he knew we couldn’t beat them head to head. So he flipped the script and changed the battlefield. He understood economics, banking, and human behavior like few others and realized we didn’t have to beat the British on the field; we just needed all the Dutch creditors to King George start to get nervous and lose confidence and really start to put a pinch on the Crown Treasury. And he knew we could eventually just make it not worth it to the Crown and they’d have no choice but to pull out.

Of course few people in history have ever had the amount of raw leadership and charisma needed to hold an army together while essentially getting their arse kicked all over the place for the time required for Hamilton’s plan to realize. But one of those people in human history was George Washington and he’s why we exist today