Dec 23, 2009

Salem on History | George Washington

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Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries
Categories: Government and Politics, Military History
Subcategories: Politicians, Diplomats, American Revolution, Revolutionary War, Generals, Military Officers, Soldiers, Presidents, Prime Ministers
Curriculum: American Colonial History (1607-1775), American Revolutionary History (1776-1788), American Early National History (1789-1815)

Article abstract: As commander in chief of the Continental army during the American Revolution, as president of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, and as first president of the United States, Washington was the principal architect of the nation’s independence and its federal political system.

Early Life

Born on February 11 (February 22, New Style), 1732, into a family of middling standing among Virginia’s planter elite, George Washington was the eldest son of his father’s second marriage. A favorite of his half brother Lawrence Washington of...

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Salem on History | George Washington

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Early Life

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