Talk:George Washington in the American Revolution

WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008
Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 11:16, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Needed?
Does this article need to exist? Surely it belongs in the main George Washington article if anywhere. 86.139.146.148 (talk) 05:04, 19 June 2008 (UTC)


 * It is in the main article, in the form of a summary. This article is called a "daughter article" (see WP:SS). (If everything about George Washington were in a single article, it would be far, far too long for most readers.) -- John Broughton  (♫♫) 13:40, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Who is telling the truth?
This article and the Military career of George Washington article say two completely different things. This article states that "Washington's contribution to victory in the American Revolution was not that of a great battlefield tactician; in fact, he lost more battles than he won..." whereas the other article states this as a myth and proves otherwise. I'm not an expert on Washington, so... which one is right? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikimaster97 (talk • contribs) 19:39, 5 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Nor do I know. Perhaps it is misleading to word it in terms of winning battles. Washington "lost" Bunker Hill, but the British were thereafter terrified of confronting the rebels head-on and losing too many of their own men, which were quite difficult to replace! Brooklyn was horrible but he incredibly saved the army from destruction.


 * Trenton was quite a coup. Yorktown was done ably enough.


 * I guess I agree that his tactics were probably eclipsed by Arnold and others, most likely. His brilliance lay in strategy and saving the army to fight another day, and just plain persevering. Student7 (talk) 23:53, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Winter of 1779-1780
I'm having trouble finding where to insert information about the hard winter at Morristown during which the army (as usual) started to fall apart for the nth time. Doesn't fit in Revolutionary War which is so high level, you need a step ladder to read it. Nor in his "career" article, which seems a mirror image of this one. Student7 (talk) 23:53, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Accusations of "lavish spending"
This is an obvious attempt at deliberate misinformation. It is widely known that the money issued by the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary War became hopelessly inflated and near-worthless by the end of the conflict (giving rise to the term "not worth a Continental"), and thus the cost in Continentals of Washington's personal expenses ended up being numerically high, despite the high number not representing a particularly large expenditure. One of the citations for this claim is a dubious, quasi-history book about Washington, and the other citation actually used exactly the same book as its own source. Such a bold claim--that a widely researched historical figure, despite having great amounts of independent wealth, pulled a confidence scheme on Congress so he could spend the money on petty creature comforts like food, and that he managed to cause no controversy whatsoever in the process, and that he even managed to spend an exorbitant amount of money on food and clothing while leading an army across several hundred miles of battlefields--cannot be made without context, not to mention a very reliable source, preferably more than one, and that reliable source is not a book intended to trade controversy for money. Tantarian (talk) 13:44, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

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