Independence

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Excerpt from Independence: A Story of the Revolution Father of his country. The uninformed try to believe that Ulysses S. Grant was his superior as a general, but a careful study of the campaigns of the two, with all the conditions and circumstances taken into consideration, proves that Washington as a military genius was Grant's superior. Grant's armies were well fed, clothed and paid, Washing ton's poorly fed, almost naked, and paid in currency so depreciated that it took ten dollars to purchase a skein of thread. Grant had unbounded resources. Washington, with none, fought the ¿ower of the British and German armies. Another quality of Washington's greatness was his unselfish devotion to his country. He served his country without pay, merely requiring that he be remunerated for his personal expenses. Washington was unambi tious. He declined a throne and refused to accept the presidency the third time. Some of our more modern great men have evinced a wish to break this established rule. Grant's ¿ank movement on Vicks burg displayed the military genius of a great man, but in point of military strategy it cannot comparewith the sudden retrograde movement of Washing ton at Trenton and Princeton. Sheridan's magnetic power at Winchester, where his presence turned defeat and utter rout into victory, was only a repetition of Washington at Monmouth. Grand, noble Lincoln held together our glorious republic in the hour that threatened its destruction, but it was the great Washington who gathered together a few weak fragments and moulded them into a mighty nation. By honest comparison with our greatest men, Washington towers above them all. Assailed by foes without and enemies within, mis treated and maligned, he never complained or re sented. Never bad man more opposition from those who should have befriended him. John Adams, in his desire to make Gates commander in-chief, became the Open enemy of Washington. Most of the New England members of the conti nental congress were his secret or open foes, and crippled him in every way they could. In addi tion to these hinderances he had Lee a traitor, the ambitious Gates not much better, with Conway, Arnold and others constantly breeding dissension. Under unfavorable circumstances, he was comvi ii preface. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.