WI: George Washington stayed loyal to the British?

What if George Washington stayed loyal to the British?

What kind of role would he have had in the American Revolution? What campaigns or battles could he have been a part of?
 
What if George Washington stayed loyal to the British?

What kind of role would he have had in the American Revolution? What campaigns or battles could he have been a part of?

Unless he was prepared to organise a pro-British militia I doubt whether his dubious military experience and performance prior to the war would have merited any role in the British Government forces.
 
Unless he was prepared to organise a pro-British militia I doubt whether his dubious military experience and performance prior to the war would have merited any role in the British Government forces.

True. Basically all he did for the colonies was inspire them. Other people were the ones who did the winning for the most part.

That said, a loyal Washington is already doing wonders by not inspiring those traitors to the crown to keep fighting.
 
It seems unlikely.

He thought himself a Virginian above all else so even before the revolution the Crown was at best second place in his heart so as soon as things began to escalate and it became colonies vs the British it seems somewhat out of character for him to move to aid in suppressing them. At best he would be neutral.
 
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