The army in butternut were now seasoned fighters, their generals had proven their mettle, and everyone knew that when the campaign reopened in the spring, the Yankees would be crushed for good and all.
Then, when he rejected the Order of Merit awarded him by the president of the republic, even his most bitter enemies filed throughthe room asking him to withdraw recognition of the armistice and to start a new war.
Even after he was made a commendatore, which is a sort of Italian knighthood, he preferred to be called ingegneri, engineer, even though he never actually designed so much as a hubcap.
The George Washington, besides being a founding father and a great general and somebody who was so instrumental in this union that we have, in this republic, also freed his slaves.