Our national memory esteems George Washington as a military genius and flawless leader. The reality, though, is that in service as Commander-in-Chief, Washington really stumbled out of the gate. Learn about the years of crushing defeat in battle, and thousands lost to disease and desertion, that shaped the military mind of America's first leader. MUSIC On Early Light; The Telling; Qi by Blue Dot Sessions The Great Mission; No Other Choice by Lee Rosevere Pulsar by Sergey Cheremisinov The Bridge is Too Far by Laszlo Harsanyi https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode Sad walk with sad melodica by Komiku https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode