"Frederick the Great and Washington: Truths, Myths, and" Topic
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| Tango01 | 08 Mar 2022 9:50 p.m. PST |
…Propaganda "Yesterday, a popular facebook page which commemorates the Revolutionary War in the United States shared an anecdote regarding George Washington and Frederick the Great. Quoting Frank Moore's 1860 publication, Diary of the American Revolution from Newspapers, volume 2, the post related how Frederick II of Prussia presented George Washington with a picture of himself, inscribed, "From the oldest General in Europe, to the greatest general on earth."[1] The anecdote continues at some length, with another Prussian general questioning Frederick's assessment, and Frederick giving a full explanation of why Washington was the greatest general on earth. The source of this anecdote is the August 9th, 1780 issue of the New Jersey Journal. The trouble is, this anecdote is not true. It never occurred. There are variations of it, sometimes a sword is the present, sometimes it is a portrait. And the worrying part is, historians have known it wasn't true for over one hundred and twenty years. Paul Leland Haworth, writing an article entitled Frederick the Great and the American Revolution in the American Historical Review in 1904, noted:…"
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| FilsduPoitou | 09 Mar 2022 12:52 p.m. PST |
Next you're going to say Frederick the Great didn't employ professional coffee sniffers to root out coffee obsessed courtiers! |
| Tango01 | 09 Mar 2022 3:36 p.m. PST |
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paints brigs for the British fleet.
