Sublime

The measure that gave Marshall the authority to circumvent it was concealed as a rider to the Army’s annual appropriation bill.32

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when it’s time for war, David stays home, exposing a gap in his leadership: passivity.

Until reinforcements arrived, Washington was woefully shorthanded. He had fewer than 9,000 men, with 2,000 too sick to enter combat. Meanwhile, he steeled himself for the advent of 17,000 German mercenaries who would form part of a gigantic expeditionary force—the largest of the eighteenth century—that might total 30,000 soldiers. When this first