What a fantastic piece, Neatorama. I've been a huge Rev War buff for 2 decades of my life. One thing we've learned over the last 50 years or so is that second-hand accounts of battles and history through 1950 or so can be somewhat unreliable. Until that time, inaccuracies propagated from all but the most primary of sources and politics often colored "tributes". There are a great number of fantastic leaders - yes Daniel Morgan among them - but less than a few regard Schuyler, Gates (the man who lost Camden and fled the battlefield, leaving Von Steuben to die with the valiant 1st and 2nd Marylanders) or even Arnold in that light. A great many more consider Nathaniel Greene and George Washington to be the war's greatest leaders and bravest souls. Nathaniel Greene waged the southern campaign that led to Cornwallis` surrender at Yorktown. George Washington's victory at Trenton and Princeton yielded the largest surrender of troops on our soil up to that point in the war, and his management (coming in like a bullpen relief pitcher) of the battle of Monmouth - a draw - was a feat of logistics and bravery not equaled by many during any point in the war and done whilst British snipers with rifled barrels tracked him. Arnold, on the other hand, no doubt benefitted from the country's immature news transmission capabilities of the period and his own political connections, as there was no shortage of brave American soldiers - white, black and native. Their stories would not be fully revealed or even discovered until many years later.
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