George Washington Awards and Honors: 10 Leadership Lessons from George Washington: George Washington Leadership
- ISBN-10
- ISBN-13
- 9798743202263
- Pages
- 175
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-04-23
- Author
- Lasandra Weikal
Description
You may remember Valley Forge from Junior High history, but to refresh your memory, it was where the American Revolutionary soldiers wintered in 1777-1778. Conditions were brutally cold. Clothing in tatters. Shoes nonexistent. Many wounded soldiers died from exposure. And those left living had to contend with typhoid, jaundice, dysentery, and pneumonia. George Washington wrote, "To see the soldiers without clothes, without blankets, without shoes...without a hut to cover them...and submitting without a murmur... can scarcely be paralleled." Approximately 2,500 American soldiers died in Valley Forge that year. Why? Yes, these men loved freedom. But according to historian David McCullough, it was mainly their love for Washington. They would go anywhere with him and do anything for him. In earlier battles, Washington's two horses were shot out from under him and four bullets passed through his coat. Had the trajectory of any of those bullets been a little different, our history would have been too. The American soldiers knew Washington would not ask them to do something he himself would not do. So they bled for him. And birthed a brand new country. Washington was the catalyst for modern day freedom and the embodiment of a great leader.
