describe washington as a leader. what are his stregnths and weaknessesas a leader. use exs from film to support answer.
Do you think that it was just stealing the boats. did the ends justfy the mean? Would the boat owner agree?
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great motivator, determined, likeable to his men, firm with those who went against him, ----Not a good tactician or military mind---Trenton was his masterpiece.
shareIn the beginning, Washington's military experience was limited to small unit tactics. He had to learn to command an Army just as much as his Army had to learn how to fight. At the beginning of the war, his tactical ability was limited, but by Monmouth, he had learned how to fight. Yorktown was a tactically daring and brilliant move, that required the spirit of a gambler, and the intuitive understanding of the limitations of his opponents. Had the British army in New York been a bit more daring, they could moved out into the countryside while Washington marched on Virginia, or perhaps even followed him to Virginia, basically preventing him from enveloping Cornwallis.
shareIt is generally accepted that an army in the field will requisition whatever materials or resources it needs to survive or to win.
It is a measure, perhaps, of a society's devotion to its civilization's ideals to see how well an army tries to minimize the effect on civilians, in that process.
Did the forge owner agree? Obviously not, according to the dialogue. Though, on watching that scene again, it occurred to me to ask myself how badly he needed the boats at that specific time. I was not too sure that on Christmas Day, with the weather threatening to close the river, that he had too much iron ore to ship downriver to Philadelphia.
In reality, if I am not mistaken, the forge had been abandonded, but I have to check that fact.
Washington commanded the respect of everyone he met. Being well over six-feet tall, he towered over most men, which probably gave him a distince advantage when Congress had to choose a leader of the Patriot army. The toughest part of his job was twofold: first, he needed to keep his army together, as many soldiers were planning to de-enlist at the end of the year, which was a week after the Battle of Trenton. Second, he had to keep his officers from committing mutiny. He had his fervent supporters, but many still didn't think much of him as a leader, and/or didn't trust his attack methodology (he was often like Dr. Jones, making it up as he went along.) Also, many of his detractors were jealous that he had been given command of the troops instead of them. They were not wrong in pointing out his many errors in the field, which lead to several massacres at the hands of the British Army. But he inspired his soldiers like no one else could. And he did do a masterful job in carrying out the CHristmas attack on the Hessians without suffering a single casualty on his side.
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