Thomas Fleming

“Soldiers of the world’s most powerful king were surrendering to ragged rebels who had defied that sovereign in the name of a new idea, the liberty of free men.”
― Thomas Fleming

“Thomas Jefferson, brilliant theorist of the Declaration of Independence, was a disaster as the state’s wartime governor. Instead of organizing Virginia’s resources on an emergency basis, he had concentrated on building an ideal government where nothing was done without the consent of the governed. As a result, Virginia, with 50,000 militia on her rolls, was unable to repulse 900 British under traitor Benedict Arnold, when they came to raid in late 1780.”
― Thomas Fleming