Page 29 - HP2A 006 George Washington

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