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Unlikely Victory by Thomas Fleming

This one is a big one. While Washington was winning and losing in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown as Fleming put it "the twitch of a finger on the trigger of a riffle might have changed American history forever," (Fleming 172). As Washington was riding around on his horse scouting out a place to stop the British army from going toward Chesapeake, he came in contact with Captain Patrick Ferguson. Ferguson could have took his rifle and shot Washington right off of his horse, but he didn't. It is very frowned upon to shoot an unarmed man of the back of his horse, and Ferguson just couldn't make himself do it. If the British captain would have shot Washington it would have made the British look as if they had no morals by shooting an unarmed man on his horse. Washington had become sort of an idol by this time. People were seeing that he the "linchpin" (Fleming 172) of winning the revolution. I personally believe that is Washington would have died in 1777 that the war would have fallen apart. I agree with Fleming that without Washington we probably would have lost the war. Just like Fleming said in his article they would have never found someone to replace George Washington because he is irreplaceable. Congress actually even gave him dictatorial powers to deal with the problem at hand. I agree completely with what Fleming wrote on this topic. Without Washington everything would have went horrible and we defiantly would have lost the Revolution hands down. .
             Thirdly is the circumstance that Daniel Morgan would have lost at Cowpens. In the end of 170 the British were planning to take over North Carolina and an attack on Virginia. Major General Nathanael Greene ordered Daniel Morgan to take an army and march into western South Carolina to try to gather the drained state. Then Cornwallis sent Tarleton and his group of men to take down Morgan's rally. In Morgan's retreat he encountered the Broad River and he knew that he would lose about half of his army if he tried to cross it.


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