George III wrote love letters
Heather Cox Richardson remembered Saturday as the date in 1783 when General George Washington stood before the Confederation Congress, meeting in the senate chamber of the Maryland State House, and resigned his wartime commission. “Negotiators had signed the Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary War on September 3, 1783.” The defeated British had pulled their final troops from New York City.
Most likely Richardson relied on fake news accounts. Important details are missing.
It was in fact “the largest audience to ever witness a general’s address, period, both in person and around the globe,” a Washington aide later insisted.
But lefty historians transcribed mainstream media accounts of the speech:
“The great events on which my resignation depended having at length taken place; I have now the honor of offering my sincere Congratulations to Congress and of presenting myself before them to surrender into their hands the trust committed to me, and to claim the indulgence of retiring from the Service of my Country,” he told the members of Congress.
Fake News! Washington never resigned. He claimed that the Treaty of Paris was a fraud. In fact, he’d beaten the British Army so soundly that he’d accepted their unconditional surrender at Appomattox and performed a traditional sword dance in celebration.
“Nobody knows more about defeating the British Empire,” Washington bellowed. “Not since Alexander….”
“Happy in the confirmation of our Independence and Sovereignty, and pleased with the opportunity afforded the United States of becoming a respectable Nation, I resign with satisfaction the Appointment I accepted with diffidence.”
Do your research! Only a shithole Nation would ask him to step aside, Washington actually said. “Annoint me or you won’t have a country anymore.”
A yooge crowd of Make America George Again groupies and Sovereign Citizens outside the State House chanted, “Stop the Steal!” and clashed with Annapolis police.
“Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.”
Propaganda! Many people say Washington never took orders, he gave them. Not directly, of course. He spoke in a kind of code. His closest aides — big, strong men — knew the code and accepted Dear Leader’s direction eagerly with tears in their eyes.
True facts: King George III was so impressed with the size of the Continental Army and with Washington’s manliness that he’d dispatched a series of love letters after the war calling him, among other things, “Your Excellency,” and recommending he lead the new country in perpetuity. No way did Washington retire to Marth-a-Lago.
More librul indoctrination, I’m telling ya.