While I agree that Suicide made an assertion that needed to be backed up, you seem to be saying here that we have to provide cites for our QUESTIONS, which seems odd.
I have no idea how you got that interpretation from what I said. I said “you should be prepared to be asked about” where you heard the allegation you are asking about.
George Washington had served with a number of British officers during the French and Indian War (part of the Seven Years War), in particular, he and Thomas Gage both fought in the battle of Braddock’s Defeat. I recall a history class at Texas A&M about a decade ago where the professor said that the two had exchanged friendly letters during the Siege of Boston, but I don’t know how much of that was actual friendliness between opposing officers and former comrades, and how much was just required social pleasantries leading into official business.
That said, I don’t know if they ever actually hung out before the war, never mind during the actual fighting.
EDIT: Similarly, there were cases where naval officers of two different navies would invite each other aboard for dinner and trading of news (during peacetime). Obviously, once war broke out, they still had that history together, but likely wouldn’t dine together again unless officers from one ship or the other were captured, or if they were both in a neutral harbor where fighting was forbidden, in which case they both might be invited to dinner by a neutral host (let’s say Britain and France were having a go at each other around the turn of the 19th century, and a British and French warship each happened to put into port in neutral Boston or Cadiz or some similar place.)
I want to say the officers of the USS *United States *and the HMS *Macedonian *had dined together a few days before learning of the outbreak of the War of 1812. The next time the officers dined together, it was because the British officers were Prisoners of War after their the American ship sank theirs in battle.
Missed the edit window: Per a quick Wiki, it seems I got my facts wrong. Macedonian was captured, not sunk (she would serve as USS Macedonian for another decade or so), but that the two Captains had met in Norfolk, Virginia before the war and were on fairly friendly terms.
ok, it was either the history channel, now known as history, or history channel int’l, now known as h2, or maybe arts & entertainment, now a&e…the channel that’s alwasys showing the hitler shit, or the shitler if you will