The Last Conversation Between George Washington and Benedict Arnold

There was a secret plot to kill george washington at the start of the revolutionary war. He gathered up those responsible, he built the gallows, and then he hanged the person in front of 20 thousand people. And what i love about the book is, you know, we all tell the story about george washton, like him as the greatest man who ever lived. It's an awesome story, but it's not the true story. In fact, one of the great scenes in the book of the first conspiracies, he gets pinned back by the british in one of the erly early battles of the war. The key moment is that george washedan won

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