Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered"
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@pudgeboyardee32 it is rather interesting and distinctive though. When with our forces, he was twice wounded quite severely, once in each leg, resulting in one leg being much shorter than the other.
But oddly, when he was with the British forces, he received not so much as a scratch.
Given the range of muskets and their lack of accuracy at range, one ponders just where those shots may have originated, which would speak to his quality as an officer.
Something more likely and actually probably, compared to your screed of suppositions, postulates and odd reading compared to well, actual recorded history of both sides.
And his court martial was ostensibly for doing what the other officers were doing, but in reality, it was because he got caught profiteering, rather than keeping a lower profile with a restive and divided populace.
A bit of trivia. George Washington had minimal to no pay during the revolution, instead being compensated with an expense account for the duration of the war. His income, rather higher than his British counterparts.
After the Constitution was ratified and he was to become our first president, he offered to do so without salary, only a similar expense account. Congress gave a collective shudder, remembering said infamous expense account and rapidly assigned him a salary.
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