# George Washington vs Great Britain's "B" Team?

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**Created:** [October 6, 2012, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-washington-vs-great-britains-b-team/636929 "2012-10-06T19:15:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-washington-vs-great-britains-b-team/636929/21 "2012-10-23T18:28:45Z")

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> [@Sitnam](#):
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> Washington was certainly not the most dangerous general the British Empire ever faced, that is absurd. I’d give it to Napoleon before George for starters.
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> The accomplished generals in Britain abstained because of the nature of the conflict. They would be fighting Englishmen on strange soil for an undetermined length of time, for undetermined goals, to undetermined ends. Meanwhile the English themselves with a parliamentary government would never be in direct threat. There is no glory in killing your own countrymen, and plenty of scorn.
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> The ambitious were the only ones who attempted it, but lets not blame Washington for that.

Very true, enlisting for this fight was unpopular to say the least in the U.K.

Wolfe would probably excelled in this war but unfortunately he was killed a few years earlier.

Britain had a comparatively small army by European standards which not only had to handle a large area, but was at the end of a logistical supply chain, thousands of miles long, supplied by wind powered ships.

Not the best situation to be in at the best of times.

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