I was thinking more of George turning down the "Kingship" after the
revolution. If you seriously think that von Stueben was capable of holding
the Continental Army better than Washington did, not much I can say.
Frankly the English had a better military than we did throughout the war.
There is no doubt that training helped, but head to head fighting the
European way against the UK just played into their advantages.
As far as Arnold goes, I think he's the very definition of a "Sunshine Patriot".
He fought for himself, and that was it.
I do find it interesting that virtually all of the guys mentioned so far were
military, when frankly the military is one of the smaller cross sections of
America. I'm as big a fan as the next guy, but I'm not sure that being a great
warrior makes you a great American.