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Livin' on a Prayer: The Luck of Washington's Army

"Without Washington's leadership and unrelenting perseverance the Revolution would have almost certainly failed." (294) Nathaneal Greene wrote, "He will be the deliverer of his own country." (294) But even more so than Washington's tenacious and unrelenting leadership, the Revolution was saved time and again by luck. Most of this luck stems from the overall underestimation that every British soldier had of the Americans. The British thought the war would be over within a matter of days, but that didn't happen. Although we did come very close to being annihilated several times over the course of 1776. I agree that it was the luck that saved the Continental Army that long first year, helped along by General George Washington.
Much if not the entire Parliament believed the war would be over quickly. "General James Grant, a member of the House of Commons, boasted that with 5,000 British Regulars he would march from one end of the......

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