On the recordOctober 18, 1931
It is not too much to say that without Washington the war for independence would not have been won.
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presidency.ucsb.eduHerbert Hoover: “It is not too much to say that without Washington the war for independence would not have been won.”
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Address on the 150th Anniversary of the Surrender of General Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia.
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