THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE

WASHINGTON'S ARMY CONSISTED OF ONLY 3,468

MEN IN ITS ENTIRETY WHILE NEARLY 8,000

AMERICANS ALONE WERE IN THE BRITISH ARMY

IN FACT, NEARLY 1/3 OF AMERICANS OPPOSED

THE REVOLUTION

AT YORKTOWN, THE BATTLE THAT WON THE WAR,

THE FRENCH OUTNUMBERED AMERICANS ALMOST

3 TO 1 (THEY WERE BOTH FIGHTING THE BRITISH)

WASHINGTON ONLY HAD 11,000 MEN WHILE THE

FRENCH HAD ALMOST 30,000 ALONG WITH

NEARLY 40 SHIPS

BECAUSE KING GEORGE III HAD VOWED TO CONTINUE

FIGHTING EVEN AFTER YORKTOWN, HE ENDED UP

WRITING A LETTER OF ABDICATION WHEN

PARLIAMENT OBJECTED TO HIS PLAN

HE THEN WITHDREW HIS LETTER AND CONSOLED

HIMSELF WITH THE HOPE THAT WASHINGTON

WOULD BECOME A DICTATOR AND THE COLONISTS

WOULD ONCE AGAIN DESIRE BRITISH RULE

GEORGE WASHINGTON, HOWEVER, SURPRISED

EVERYBODY (INCLUDING KING GEORGE III) WHEN HE

STEPPED DOWN IN 1783 WITH THESE WORDS TO

CONGRESS – "HAVING NOW FINISHED THE WORK

ASSIGNED TO ME…I RETIRE FROM THE GREAT

THEATRE OF ACTION"

WHEN KING GEORGE HEARD ABOUT IT HE EVEN

GASPED, "IF HE DOES THAT, SIR, HE WILL BE

THE GREATEST MAN IN THE WORLD."