Feb. 22, 1732 George Washington is born in a modest house at Popes Creek, Westmoreland County, Virginia. His father ... of their country.” In late December 1776, with the revolution on the ...

Aaron Burr, who served briefly on his staff during the Revolution, considered George ... insurrection. Washington, who died in 1799, would forever be known as the father of his country.

In 1776, as George Washington was leading the Continental Army through some of the earliest battles of the American Revolution, disease posed a greater threat to his forces than British troops.

George Washington was many things — victorious general, Founding Father ... Even before the American Revolution, George Washington had been supplementing his imported English porter with ...

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George Washington led his own fight for independence in America. Washington was born on February 22, 1732, in Pope's Creek, Virginia. His father's death in 1744 ended his formal education.