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 ...

Legend has it that George Washington ceremoniously stood beneath the branches of a stately elm on July 3, 1775, the day he took command of his army. The Washington Elm lived until 1923 ...

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 ...

Had George Washington been less ambivalent, more blacks might have participated on the Patriot side than with the Loyalists. When he took command of the Continental Army in 1775, Washington barred ...

"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 ...

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 ...

A descendant of John Ball, the medieval English preacher who led the first popular rebellion in England, George Washington led his own fight for independence in America. Washington was born on ...

The Charleston Museum is launching a brand new audio tour at the historicalHeyward-Washington House, spotlighting the home's ...

George Washington was the son of Augustine Washington (1694-1743) and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington (1708-1789). The Washington family moved to Ferry Farm Plantation in 1738. Located on the ...