I see that article and the award as more of a commendation than bitter words. I mean they have a statue of him in Trafalgar Square. Admiration and respect for your enemy are good qualities to have.

I see that article and the award as more of a commendation than bitter words. I mean they have a statue of him in Trafalgar Square. Admiration and respect for your enemy are good qualities to have.

In June of 1775, George Washington was appointed Major General and elected by Congress to be commander in chief of the American revolutionary forces. Although he took up his tasks energetically, Washington accomplished nothing militarily for the remainder of the year and more, nor did he try. His only campaign in 1775 was internal rather than external; it was directed against the American army as he found it, and was designed to extirpate the spirit of liberty pervading this unusually individualistic and democratic army of militiamen. In short, Washington set out to transform a people's army, uniquely suited for a libertarian revolution, into another orthodox and despotically ruled statist force after the familiar European model.

Read more... (After reading this, OF COURSE they would put a statue of him in Trafalgar Square).

Yeah we tried that in the USA naming places after great native chiefs but the meaning is lost on most people and frankly it's a little sick.

Why would we be bitter? We went on to build the greatest empire the planet has ever seen

I think Rome would like to have a word with you about that.

When you were swinging from trees and dancing around fires with facepaint and wolf pelts, they were literally inventing the next 2000 years of modern society.

George Washington: Britain's Greatest Foe


If it's any condolence, everything that the colonists fought for was lost in 1789 when the Articles of Confederation were replaced by land speculators. The new document is known as the Constitution. It's first affect was the Whiskey Rebellion.

Ironically, the event that was the first nail in the coffin was personally led by.......... George Washington. He presided over squashing what was an expected outcome to the Constitution.

So people who have more than the usual comic book version of history know George Washington as quite a bastard really and not just for the British.

Empires come and go.

I much rather applaud the enlightened that see empires as a great folly to human progress. If we do not unite freely it is just a form of oppression, and why applaud the biggest oppressors?

I think Rome would like to have a word with you about that.

When you were swinging from trees and dancing around fires with facepaint and wolf pelts, they were literally inventing the next 2000 years of modern society.

Yeah we tried that in the USA naming places after great native chiefs but the meaning is lost on most people and frankly it's a little sick.

You are only butthurt that it is not your Adolf. Get over it.

If it's any condolence, everything that the colonists fought for was lost in 1789 when the Articles of Confederation were replaced by land speculators. The new document is known as the Constitution. It's first affect was the Whiskey Rebellion.

Empires come and go.

I much rather applaud the enlightened that see empires as a great folly to human progress. If we do not unite freely it is just a form of oppression, and why applaud the biggest oppressors?

I think Rome would like to have a word with you about that.

When you were swinging from trees and dancing around fires with facepaint and wolf pelts, they were literally inventing the next 2000 years of modern society.

If I was British I would have to say that my stiff upper lip would be most challenged.


The Romans didn't take the whole island, but that's more attributable to an empire being stretched too thin than anything else.

Jawohl mein Fuhrer.

I know what this thread is missing, the official accusation of being in league with the Neo crowd for not being a fan of the present state of states.

But please, show me where the Adolf movement or their ideals are NOT in charge of things. Most of what troubles the world and makes America the country that it is today is the very thing we claim to righteously fill graveyards with, and everything good people fight against.

But you probably won't be able to do that, as indicated by your present track. People like me ignore people like you and go on to start brush fires in minds that are more worthy of the time and effort.

How cute are you? Germany does not have a recent and great military history and so you go looking at other nations and want to tell them "Come on"?

You come on! Get over it. There is nothing to talk about. Start a thread where you talk about Germany's military history before the time of You-Know-Who. Just do not tell people what they shall think of their own histories in lack of your own. You have lost the war and no amount of cuteness will change this.

If that lost war is the Second World War, then we could say that the United States lost it. Britain lost that war too. ...

So people who have more than the usual comic book version of history know George Washington as quite a bastard really and not just for the British.

Well, considering that he's technically a terrorist that's not surprising.