The British Army Demotion
He was already upset with the pay they were giving the Virginian soldiers of the British Army, so he must have been distraught to hear that he got demoted. George Washington had been a lieutenant colonel when he was demoted to a captain leading only 10 Virginians. The Mount Vernon estate said that he wrote this in a letter to William Fitzhugh: “I think, the disparity between the present offer of a Company, and my former Rank, too great to expect any real satisfaction or enjoyment in a Corps, where I once did, or thought I had a right to, command.”
The British Army Demotion
A Spymaster
Even though George Washington had been a man of morals, he made sure to do his best to obtain victory during the war. Back in the Revolutionary War, he even organized spy networks to extract information from the enemy and mislead the other side at the same time. He would send secret agents across the enemy lines and even supplied British officers the wrong information to support his hidden motives. As you can see, he had been a talented spymaster!
A Spymaster
