Dr. Scott Stephenson

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American History Tellers · American Revolution | The Revolution Continues | 7 · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

I mean, he modeled his regiment on the British army, trained them in the same kinds of tactics and discipline.

And Washington said, you know, surely.

We deserve to be brought on to the regular establishment, meaning, you know, getting pay directly from Britain and officers having commissions.

But ultimately, he is frustrated in that pursuit.

And at the end of 1758, so Washington had been fighting for four campaigns from 1754 to 1758.

And all of those had been focused around trying to dislodge the French from what was known as the Forks of the Ohio.

This is where present-day Pittsburgh is located.

And at the end of 1758, that's Washington's sort of highest level of command before the Revolutionary War as a brigadier under the British general John Forbes.

And they succeed in driving the French way, capturing the forks of the Ohio.

There was a French Fort Duquesne there.

They rename it Pittsburgh after Prime Minister William Pitt.

And at that point, Washington's ambitions for military position in the British Army have been frustrated.

So he makes the decision to retire from his military career and has a pretty good plan B, which is to marry Martha Custis, who was probably the wealthiest, most eligible widow in Virginia at the time.

And so at the end of that campaign of 1758, he marries Martha Custis and goes into civilian life, probably expecting never to put a uniform on again.

But

In 1775, as Congress is trying to decide, you know, who are we going to appoint to command the Continental Army?

And there were other candidates.

There were other men who had military experience, probably equal to Washington's.

Importantly, he was from the South.

And John Adams and others recognized that if we were going to unify a group of disparate colonies and create a continental army, we needed to appoint someone from the South to make sure that we were bringing the rest of the colonies into this resistance to the British forces in Boston.

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