An Imaginary Interview Of General George Washington In 1783

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GW: You known, some military men have huge ego.  After Gen. Horatio Gates won the victory over Gen. John Burgoyne's British Army in Saratoga, New York in October 1777, Gates got big-headed.  Some people in America started saying that Gates should replace me.  I learned later that he didn't really do much at Saratoga.  It was due to the brilliance of Gen. Benedict Arnold.  Yeah, that traitor Arnold.  But Gates got all the credit, and it made Arnold quit on America and went over to the British side.  Later on, Gates got the assignment in the South, and he was really jacked up.  But he and his troops were routed by the British Army led by Gen. Cornwallis in Camden, South Carolina in 1780.  That pretty much ended his ambition to replace me. In the end, I remained the supreme commander of the Continental Army throughout the Revolutionary War and got to see Cornwallis' army surrender at Yorktown in October1781.

GW: During the French and Indian War, I experienced the haughty British attitude toward me as an American.  The British soldiers in general did not think much of the American colonists.  Furthermore, they were not willing to listen to what I had to say about the combat on American soil.  My first job was a land surveyor.  I know how to get around the valleys, woods, plains, and rivers, but the British didn't want to hear what I could offer them.  So, I resigned my military rank and settled at Mount Vernon as a planter with my wife, Martha.  Later, I was involved in the Virginia Colonial politics and realized that we Americans would be better of breaking away from the British Empire.  I was against the taxation policies during those turbulent years in the 1760s and the 1770s.

GW: At the moment, I'm content to be back in my beloved Mount Vernon in Virginia.  My wife, Martha, had to run our plantation there without me for the last 8 years or so.  I owe it to her to be around for the rest of our lives together.

GW: I was very proud of my men in the Army.  Those stuck with me through thick and thin. In case you loved this information and you want to receive details about White Kitchen cabinets assure visit the web page. We proved that the less trained and less equipped army could win the war against the better trained and better equipped army.  Like I said earlier, Americans lost more battles than won.  But, we still won the war.  The British found it difficult to control all of North America's 13 colonies with the resources they had.  They had to get supplies from Britain, which was 3,000 miles away for all these years.  In the end, we won the war because we convinced them that they couldn't win.  I credit our people's indomitable spirit for victory.

GW: Certainly.  My army was not well trained.  Not well equipped.  Not well paid.  It seemed that I spent more time pleading my soldiers to stay in the army and pleading to the Continental Congress to give us more supplies than actual fighting in the battle fields.  At times, it was very trying.  The winter spent in Valley Forge was one of the most difficult.

(When the Second Continental Congress was convened in May 1775 in Philadelphia, George Washington was unanimously chosen as the supreme commander of the Continental Army to lead the way in America's quest for  independence.)

GW: I was a delegate from Virginia when the Second Continental Congress was convened.  The battle had already begun in Massachusetts, and the need to raise an American army was urgent. Since I had military experience from the French and Indian War and represented the Old Dominion, I was chosen to command the Continental Army, which was yet to be organized. It was kind of like being named the manager of the new expansion baseball team.  I had to build the army from scratch.