but the time of the revolution we had no
military we had no Navy we had no money
the idea that we did win was almost
beyond belief I'm David McCullough and I
write American history Washington was
not a particularly good military leader
he made mistakes but he always learned
from his mistakes when Washington took
command in Massachusetts he was not too
sure about New Englanders they were a
tremendous mix of all kinds of people
farmers city people immigrants these
Americans were all in many ways
inexperienced
the one thing Washington didn't
understand is how hard these people
could work New Englanders were fighting
on their own land to their own way of
life
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