"We cannot imagine an Eisenhower, a Pershing, a Lee, dancing with joy on a dock, but Washington did it."
— George Washington

January 1, 1970

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Sources

Christopher Collier in Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787 (1987), p. 57, on Washington's reaction to the news of Admiral De Grasse's fleet arriving for the Battle of Yorktown.