Tango01 | 19 Jan 2021 10:14 p.m. PST |
Interesting what if?…. See here link Amicalement Armand
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John the OFM | 19 Jan 2021 11:20 p.m. PST |
Oh for heaven's sake. That's the dumbest what-if I've ever seen here, and there have been plenty of doozies. No. It's not the least bit interesting. What is it about being on the internet that gives it instant credibility? Even, and especially the commenters on that link, not credited of course, think it's dumb. |
John the OFM | 19 Jan 2021 11:23 p.m. PST |
What if George Washington was more interested in musical theatre than being a soldier? |
newarch | 20 Jan 2021 3:30 a.m. PST |
Wouldn't that cancel out the being a traitor and make him a US hero? BTW this is probably what the article says but I couldn't be bothered to read it. |
GurKhan | 20 Jan 2021 4:05 a.m. PST |
"What if George Washington was more interested in musical theatre than being a soldier?" He'd have written an opera about Alexander Hamilton. |
Randall | 20 Jan 2021 5:26 a.m. PST |
What if George Washington was more interested in musical theatre than being a soldier? Yes! Probably would've written a dozen wonderful operettas! After all, he was the very model of a modern major-general…. |
John the OFM | 20 Jan 2021 8:09 a.m. PST |
Taking this seriously, not that it deserves it, it would only serve to inflame Britain, and have her back in a brand new War. The USA was in no condition to even continue fighting after Yorktown. George III ran things, to the extent that he was running things, rather incompetently. It would have been a disaster for the USA. Did the idiot who started that "what-if" get any replies? Last time I looked, none that took it seriously. |
The Virtual Armchair General | 20 Jan 2021 11:50 a.m. PST |
No, I didn't even bother clicking the link. "What would have happened?" Bad Benny would have been drawn and quartered--the official punishment ordered by Mad George for the signers of the Declaration--and then the next king would have prosecuted the war to the fullest. You have to wonder how much free time some people have to postulate such nonsense. A whole bunch of "Plus 1's" to John's very proper response. TVAG |
Tango01 | 20 Jan 2021 12:20 p.m. PST |
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HMS Exeter | 21 Jan 2021 4:54 a.m. PST |
Actually, Washington WAS interested in musical theater. He wrote a bio-play on the life of Alexander Hamilton, but trashed it, convinced no one would be willing to sit through it. |
Tango01 | 21 Jan 2021 12:31 p.m. PST |
Thanks!. Amicalement Armand
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arthur1815 | 21 Jan 2021 12:58 p.m. PST |
And John Burgoyne turned playwright after his defeat at Saratoga. Perhaps George and John should have combined their talents to become the 18th century Rogers and Hammerstein? |