Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25133206-20150605034943/@comment-26272311-20150605190148

Draugluin the werewolf wrote: I hate how the Americans chose Washington as a national hero He was a turncoat, a supporter of genocide and he farmed canabis! He also led the Continental Army (Later U.S. Army) through the American Revolution despite extreme difficulty just getting the troops from one colony to work with troops from another colony, constantly low supplies, very high desertion rates (once three entire companies left at once!), low to nonexistent troop discipline (Until General Von Steuben came from Prussia to train them.), and being outnumbered about five to one until Ben Franklin got the French to help us. And the armies King Louis the Sixteenth didn't coordinate at all with the Americans until The Battle of Yorktown, which was the last real battle of the war. Now, I admit his policies about Native American peoples were questionable. (I'm assuming that's what you're referring to.) Frankly, I have no clue what canabis is. He didn't betray the British Army, he'd been retired for years when he joined the Continental Army. I thought that some people in Britain might still be sore that what was at the time the most powerful nation on the planet lost to what equates to a bunch of farmers with guns, but eeesh! Smearing one of our country's greatest heroes as a traitor!?