Ep. 116: The Man Who Would Not Be King
Young Heretics
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How to Take the Direction of the Armies of the United States
In 17 83, there begins to circulate a suggestion that the army should mutiny. And again, if you think that this is a kind of a sort of idle talk, or that s, you know, this couldn't have done some real damage had washington been at the head of it,. none other than hamilton, right? Alexander hamilton sort of flirts with this idea. You know, there were powerful people in phositions to suggest that washington should potentially go along with and hears what hamilton wrote anto to washington. It's bad for them to want to do what he wants to be. Contrast that with washington's absolute rigor, a refusal
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