Quote Originally Posted by Greyblades View Post
The American Revolution was at first considered the Second English Civil War, the concept that an Anglo-Saxon North American was seperate from an Anglo-Saxon European was an invention that came about at the end of the war. Before then, George Washington was for all intents and purposes British...
George was a Virginian. That made him, by birth, a subject of the crown. As a subject of the crown taking arms against crown authority, there can be no doubt that he was a traitor to that authority.

Even after George gave England the pretext they wanted to move against France's possessions in the New World (quite possibly inadvertently and certainly by fortifying a poorly sited location), nobody would give him a royal commission. After minimizing the debacle that was the Braddock expedition, they still would not give him a royal commission.

In some ways, this is symptomatic of the entire screwed up relationship between England and what became the USofA. Little or no effort was made to allow Americans access to England's institutions despite the fact that the cultural ties between the two groups were closer than any of England's other colonial relationships. The Scots had seats in Parliament and a say in affairs, their fair share of commissioned officers, their share of government job holders -- not so the Americans. Had any real effort along those lines been made in the 1760s, the Revolution would have been stop-punched and the history of the world quite different.