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* [[Badass]]: Both sides had theirs, though the usual lionizing given the colonists is quite downplayed in this work.
** [[Badass Bookworm]]: Henry Knox, a former bookstore owner who was one of Washington's best generals when it came to artillery. His own CMOA was successfully pulling off the overland transport of nearly 100,000 plus pounds of cannons from Fort Ticonderoga all the way to Boston, despite the distance, weight, and lots of icy weather.
** [[Handicapped Badass]]: Both Henry Knox and Nathaniel Greene. The former had lost two fingers when his fowling piece had blown up on him a few years back, but this didn't affect his ability to command. Greene had a limp in one leg, but he refused to let it slow him down.
* [[Brilliant But Lazy]]: William Howe, who was far from stupid or cowardly, but prone to dawdling, which was to Washington's advantage more than once.
* [[Crazy Awesome]]: Some Hessians rolled a cannon in the streets of Trenton right in front of some of Washington's troops to fire it at them. Those troops ''ran right into the line of fire'' to prevent the Hessians from being able to actually fire it in time, took down the Hessians while they were still trying to figure out a Plan B, then turned the cannon around and fired it into the other Hessian reinforcements.
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