Interesting Facts About Well-Known Leaders

In the website, http://www.redcoat.me.uk/,(that you can learn more about in an earlier post) it suggested that the first president of the United States of America, George Washington, was not who we thought he was. The article says"

Washington had became one of the wealthiest men in the Americas by marrying into as much money as he could." This clearly contradicts what I have been taught in traditional schooling. Now while this website is obviously a little bit biased, there have been some accounts on Washington's faults. In a magazine called "Smithsonian" it reported that George Washington said, "want of experience to move on a large scale," about his military expertise. Also Washington did not understand the significance of the war in the Southern states and did not commit troops there until Congress ordered him too. This was a grave mistake because once the troops were there, it was too late to prevent surrender of Charleston. Not even Congress was aware that the French, not George Washington came up with the plan to pave the way for America's triumph. In 1796 a well-known man named Thomas Paine(who was in France at that time) wrote a letter(Letter to George Washington) that claimed George's achievements were "

fraudulent". Now assuming that all of this is true, I submit that the British had an excellent reason to be irked. Think about it for a minute; The entire country of America is teaching the youth that George Washington is a hero when the truth is that he was not responsible for the American victory. I would be extremely livid if I were British. I would also be extremely provoked considering that I have been lied about to an extent (during school). I am not saying that George Washington was not a great leader, merely I am proposing that he just was not the amazing strategist and tatician that the general public of America primarily perceive him to be. But perhaps this is why some of the British might get irritated when the subject of the Revolutionary War comes up.