Charles Lee is an inspired choice to carry out Washington’s multipronged mission. Although he is British by birth and background, and only emigrated from England to the colonies a few years earlier, Lee has since become one of the fiercest and most outspoken Patriots—and one of the first to argue for full independence from England. Lee is so famously hot tempered that during his service as a British officer in the French and Indian War, one of the Native American tribes who fought beside him gave him the nickname “Boiling Water.” Disheveled in appearance and prone to profanity, Lee often said
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