Dr. Lindsay M. Chervinsky
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first heard Jul 2026
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By the midway point in the war, Congress was referring to the troops as Washington's troops as opposed to American troops because they were
so loyal to him and adored him so much that they probably wouldn't have fought for anyone else.
And he had a very keen sense that his self-sacrifice was essential to this conflict.
So he didn't ever go home.
He didn't ever leave his troops.
He was there the entire time and knew that as long as he didn't die and as long as the army didn't disintegrate, that it was going to be almost impossible for the
Hamilton had such great communication and organizational skills.
He could master and maintain more information than most people would be able to process.
And so not only did he very quickly adopt Washington's voice so he could write for Washington and knew what his boss wanted him to say, but he could also manage those around him.
And so he almost became like a chief of staff at the headquarters.
Benjamin Franklin was hard at work trying to get supplies and money and funds from the French, which they initially supplied secretly and then supplied officially once the Treaty of Amity in Commerce and Defense was signed in 1778.
The French also convinced Spain to support the United States.
Through those negotiations, they were able to come up with the Treaty of Paris, which was a remarkably generous treaty to the new United States, including fishing rights in the Newfoundlands and recognition of territory.
It was signed in 1783 and officially ended the war.
One of my favorite depictions of that treaty is a painting that was done partway through the process in which the British ministers were supposed to be depicted and the American ministers were supposed to be depicted.
But because the treaty was viewed as sort of a betrayal of British interests by a lot of the British people, the British ministers refused to sit for it.
And so it is a permanently unfinished painting that a copy of which is still in the State Department in Washington, D.C.
today.
In a lot of ways, declaring independence and winning the war was the easy part and actually existing was much, much harder.
Because when the colonies had a common enemy of Great Britain, they could kind of focus on that.
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