tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7520303675367700778.post3246826829184740542..comments2024-03-26T22:57:21.033+00:00Comments on Random Views: Down the ages, the phrase ‘we’re all in this together’ is just the prelude to your being ripped off. Again.David Beesonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00393977902379776532noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7520303675367700778.post-90092216809929292322013-07-03T09:14:05.925+01:002013-07-03T09:14:05.925+01:00Well said. Reach for your pocket and lock up the s...Well said. Reach for your pocket and lock up the spoons.<br /><br />Washington's great military achievement has to have been that he kept the army going, through thick and thin, most of it thin. Had he lost the army he would, indeed, have lost the war. As long as he kept it alive, Britain couldn't win.<br /><br />As you say, he could have lost it early on, in the New York campaign. But, to be fair to him, he didn't. In fact, the withdrawal was well executed, including the reliance on civilian boats - rather like the Dunkirk evacuation over a century and a half later. As Churchill said in 1940, you don't win wars by evacuations; on the other hand, you can certainly lose one by not evacuating intelligently and on time. David Beesonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00393977902379776532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7520303675367700778.post-57692913008163416262013-07-02T21:27:39.160+01:002013-07-02T21:27:39.160+01:00It came as a shock to me some years ago to learn W...It came as a shock to me some years ago to learn Washington nearly lost the war at the very beginning when he managed to get himself and his army trapped on Long Island and it was only a bunch of civilian boats that managed to get them out under cover of night. <br /><br />I agree about the "we're all in this together" phrase. It hear stuff like that and I reach for my wallet, just to make sure it's still there.FAith A. Colburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16759491522091482536noreply@blogger.com