Christian Robertson
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1,279 appearances
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 5 Jun
Christian Robertson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But then also through that whole process of the war, what happens to the colonial fighters and the militias, they actually get skilled in warfare.
Right.
And they get more of a common American identity.
And so you can start to see that even though the Americans in the colonies are on the same side as England, this is providing the necessary –
back uh backstory for what will happen later on but i just thought that was interesting how how they would kind of the english would kind of snub their nose probably at the way the americans were fighting but then it was probably also like but i'm glad somebody's doing it you know what i mean well that was how they lost one of the wars because they estimated there was like 300 people but then they ended up being 900 because they were all hiding behind the trees and stuff
Well, one thing Washington figured out, too, in this, we were talking about Washington, is he was deeply formed by this war, particularly as he served under General Braddock.
And what he learned, I thought was just so interesting.
So he's, and this is, I love this, because you don't know what you're learning in the perceived failures or even successes, but he's watching
the bravery of this man.
He's like, that's impressive.
But he's also seeing that he's so entrenched in the European warfare style that he's like, there's no way that you can win by bravery alone.
You got to have a strategy around this.
So Washington ends up becoming a genius in his own right, mainly because he was able to observe the bravery, yes, which I think is a key part of Washington's story as well.
But also at the same time,
like learning to be strategic, which he'll later use whenever he fights the English with their European warfare style, which they were entrenched in.
So you're seeing kind of all of this formation of a type of idea, type of thought.
It's very organic.
It's very deconsolidated.
Everything is, I mean, it's absolutely brilliant.
And you can start to see now this is an identity that's starting to emerge in the American psyche
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