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Washington’s most important role with any sort of military expertise
as commanding general was the that was able to do so. He also set
embodiment of the revolutionary the precedent of civilian superiority
efforts against the British. He was a over the military by disbanding his
figurehead and an idol, so to speak, army after the war of independence
of the Congress, the military, the was won and not declare himself
French supports, the common folk monarch of the American states,
and other countries that were allied as some people around him
to the Americans. His political ability recommended.
to keep all of these factions under a After independence, Washington
single goal to defeat the British was was elected the first president of the
probably the most important role United States of America. He was
that George Washington had, and and remains the only president to
he was probably the only politician receive all the votes of the electoral