https://padlet.com/gracie4392/7igo5n4u91qp Made with a wink and a smile en-us 2018-08-30 01:04:09 UTC 2018-08-30 01:29:51 UTC hello@padlet.com gracie4392 https://padlet.com/gracie4392/7igo5n4u91qp/wish/276448655 George Washington could trace his family's presence in North America to his great-grandfather, John Washington, who migrated from England to Virginia. The family held some distinction in England and was granted land by Henry VIII. Much of the family’s wealth was lost during the Puritan revolution and in 1657 George’s grandfather, Lawrence Washington, migrated to Virginia.]]> 2018-08-30 01:07:04 UTC https://padlet.com/gracie4392/7igo5n4u91qp/wish/276448655 gracie4392 https://padlet.com/gracie4392/7igo5n4u91qp/wish/276448730 Little is known about George Washington's childhood which fostered many of the fables later biographers manufactured to fill in the gap, but hey. Among these are stories that Washington threw some type of coin across the Potomac after confessing to chopping down his father's cherry tree. George was home schooled and studied with the local church sexton and later a schoolmaster in practical math, geography, Latin and the English classics. But much of the knowledge he would use the rest of his life was through his acquaintance with backwoodsmen and the plantation foreman. By his early teens, he had mastered growing tobacco, stock raising and surveying.]]> 2018-08-30 01:07:37 UTC https://padlet.com/gracie4392/7igo5n4u91qp/wish/276448730 gracie4392 https://padlet.com/gracie4392/7igo5n4u91qp/wish/276448821 In the early 1750s, France and Britain were at peace. However, the French military had begun occupying much of the Ohio Valley, protecting the King's land interests and fur trappers and French settlers. But the border lands of this area were unclear and prone to dispute between the two countries.

On October 31, 1753, Dinwiddie sent Washington to Fort LeBoeuf, at what is now Waterford, Pennsylvania, to warn the French to remove themselves from land claimed by Britain. The French politely refused and Washington made a hasty ride back to Williamsburg, Virginia's colonial capitol. Dinwiddie sent Washington back with troops and they set up a post at Great Meadows. Washington's small force attacked a French post at Fort Duquesne killing the commander, Coulon de Jumonville, and nine others and taking the rest prisoners. The French and Indian War had begun.]]> 2018-08-30 01:08:18 UTC https://padlet.com/gracie4392/7igo5n4u91qp/wish/276448821 gracie4392 https://padlet.com/gracie4392/7igo5n4u91qp/wish/276449111 The French counterattacked and drove Washington and his men back to his post at Great Meadows (later named "Fort Necessity.") After a full day siege, Washington surrendered and was soon released and returned to Williamsburg, promising not to build another fort on the Ohio River.]]> 2018-08-30 01:10:30 UTC https://padlet.com/gracie4392/7igo5n4u91qp/wish/276449111 gracie4392 https://padlet.com/gracie4392/7igo5n4u91qp/wish/276449266 Yes in fact, he got married to a woman named Martha Dandridge Custis, a widow, who was only a few months older than he. Martha brought to the marriage a considerable fortune: an 18,000-acre estate, from which George personally acquired 6,000 acres. With this and land he was granted for his military service, Washington became one of the more wealthy landowners in Virginia. The marriage also brought Martha's two young children, John (Jacky) and Martha (Patsy), ages six and four, respectively. Washington lavished great affection on both of them, and was heartbroken when Patsy died just before the Revolution. Jacky died during the Revolution, and George adopted two of his children. Sad, isn't it. :(]]> 2018-08-30 01:11:55 UTC https://padlet.com/gracie4392/7igo5n4u91qp/wish/276449266 gracie4392 https://padlet.com/gracie4392/7igo5n4u91qp/wish/276449343 Though the British Proclamation Act of 1763 — prohibiting settlement beyond the Alleghenies — irritated him and he opposed the Stamp Act of 1765, Washington did not take a leading role in the growing colonial resistance against the British until the widespread protest of the Townshend Acts in 1767. His letters of this period indicate he was totally opposed to the colonies declaring independence. However, by 1767, he wasn't opposed to resisting what he believed were fundamental violations by the Crown of the rights of Englishmen.]]> 2018-08-30 01:12:38 UTC https://padlet.com/gracie4392/7igo5n4u91qp/wish/276449343 gracie4392 https://padlet.com/gracie4392/7igo5n4u91qp/wish/276449443 In 1769, Washington introduced a resolution to the House of Burgesses calling for Virginia to boycott British goods until the Acts were repealed. After the passage of the Intolerable Acts in 1774, Washington chaired a meeting in which the Fairfax Resolves were adopted calling for the convening of the Continental Congress and the use of armed resistance as a last resort. He was selected as a delegate to the First Continental Congress in March 1775.]]> 2018-08-30 01:13:20 UTC https://padlet.com/gracie4392/7igo5n4u91qp/wish/276449443 gracie4392 https://padlet.com/gracie4392/7igo5n4u91qp/wish/276449590 In August 1776, the British army launched an attack and quickly took New York City in the largest battle of the war. Washington's army was routed and suffered the surrender of 2,800 men. He ordered the remains of his army to retreat across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania. Confident the war would be over in a few months, General Howe wintered his troops at Trenton and Princeton, leaving Washington free to attack at the time and place of his choosing.]]> 2018-08-30 01:14:26 UTC https://padlet.com/gracie4392/7igo5n4u91qp/wish/276449590 gracie4392 https://padlet.com/gracie4392/7igo5n4u91qp/wish/276451659 During his long absence, the plantation had not been productive, and there was much work to be done. On a cold December day in 1799, Washington spent much of it inspecting the farm on horseback in a driving snowstorm. When he returned home, he hastily ate his supper in his wet clothes and then went to bed. The next morning, on December 13, he awoke with a severe sore throat and became increasingly hoarse. He retired early, but awoke around 3 a.m. and told Martha that he felt sick. The illness progressed until he died late in the evening of December 14, 1799. The news of his death spread throughout the country, plunging the nation into a deep mourning. Many towns and cities held mock funerals and presented hundreds of eulogies to honor their fallen hero. When the news of this death reached Europe, the British fleet paid tribute to his memory, and Napoleon ordered ten days of mourning.]]> 2018-08-30 01:29:06 UTC https://padlet.com/gracie4392/7igo5n4u91qp/wish/276451659