George Washington was the first president of the ... Well, that likely varied a bit when he was commanding his army from 1775 to 1783. And, as it turns out, we know a bit more about the breakdown ...

George Washington patented 10,900 acres along the Kanawha River in what is now Mason County, West Virginia. What started off ...

Thus the Continental Congress commissioned George Washington as commander in chief of the Continental Army, June 19, 1775. Washington, Appointed Commander in Chief. This lithograph, published by ...

Library of Congress Although there was no way George Washington could have known it at the time, when Philadelphia’s Continental Congress appointed him military commander in June 1775 ...

Washington.” Indeed, by May 1777, George Washington had reason to be optimistic. When the Revolutionary War broke out in 1775 ...

George Washington, who had been leading the ... Since the start of the war in 1775, Washington’s Continental Army had suffered repeated setbacks. But in the winter of 1776-1777 it had delivered ...

"First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.” That famous description of George Washington by his friend and fellow patriot Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee is ...