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EP. 06 George Washington

Uncancelled History

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The Origins of the British Empire

Washington had wanted very badly early in life to be part of a British empire. Samuel Johnson, for instance, made the comment, I can love everybody except an American. Washington never got quite what he wanted that way. Instead, what he got was life as a landowner in Virginia.

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