Gorge Washington by Kylee Ivins https://padlet.com/21190/dewwz2oyyeed Made with mirth en-us 2016-10-07 15:38:18 UTC 2017-05-17 11:22:07 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Beartoy.png Sources 21190 https://padlet.com/21190/dewwz2oyyeed/wish/129167563 http://www.ushistory.org/us/8c.asp

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* commander in chief of Continental Army during American revolution
*  served two terms as the first U.S. president, from 1789 to 1797
*  son of a prosperous planter raised in colonial Virginia
* worked as a surveyor then fought in the French and Indian War (1754-63)
* led the colonial forces to victory over the British and became a national hero
* elected president of the convention that wrote the U.S. Constitution
* two years later, he became America’s first president
* Less than three years after leaving office, he died at his Virginia plantation, Mount Vernon, at age 67
* born February 22, 1732, at family’s plantation on Pope’s Creek in Westmoreland County, in British colony of ,Virginia to Augustine Washington (1694-1743) and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington (1708-89)
* eldest of Augustine and Mary Washington’s six children, spent much of his childhood at Ferry Farm, a plantation near Fredericksburg, Virginia
* Washington’s father died when he was 11, it’s likely he helped him mother manage the plantation
* 1751 made his only trip outside of America when travelled to Barbados with older half-brother Lawrence (1718-52)
         * Lawrence suffered from tuberculosis and hoped the warm climate would help him recuperate
* Shortly after arrival George contracted smallpox. 
* survived although illness left permanent facial scars. 
* In 1752, Lawrence, who had been educated in England and served as Washington’s mentor, died
* eventually inherited Lawrence’s estate, Mount Vernon, on the Potomac River near Alexandria, Virginia]]> 2016-10-07 15:55:02 UTC https://padlet.com/21190/dewwz2oyyeed/wish/129169833 U.S.history.com 21190 https://padlet.com/21190/dewwz2oyyeed/wish/129548296 http://www.ushistory.org/us/8c.asp
* tell no lie, we are told
* could throw a coin across the Potomac legend declares
* was offered American crown, but turned down in name of democracy
* Time may have made great myths out of small truths, but the contributions this one man made to the creation of the American nation cannot be denied
* born in Virginia in 1732 to wealthy plantation owner
* Of all subjects he studied, loved math most
* prompted young George to apprentice as a SURVEYOR of Virginia lands in his youth
* walked miles and miles through his home state surveying land
* learned about natural environment and developed deep passion for native Virginia
* colonel in British Army played a great part in starting the French and Indian War
* ordered to deliver a message to French settlers whom the Virginia governor believed were encroaching on British lands
* French refused to yield and instead built Fort Duquesne on the site to fortify position
* Governor sent Washington back to dislodge soldiers, and fighting ensued
* first taste of battle was humbling to the twenty-two-year-old colonel
* French forced Washington to surrender after one-third of his men had been killed or wounded]]> 2016-10-10 15:31:40 UTC https://padlet.com/21190/dewwz2oyyeed/wish/129548296 mountvernon.org 21190 https://padlet.com/21190/dewwz2oyyeed/wish/129555137 http://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/the-revolutionary-war/
* Augustine's first wife, Janet Butler, died in 1729, leaving him with two sons, Lawrence and Augustine, Jr., and a daughter, Jane
* The elder Augustine then married George's mother, Mary Ball, in 1731
* George was the eldest of Augustine Washington's and Mary Ball's six children
* death of his father, however, made schooling abroad an impossibility for George Washington
*  attended a school near his home for the first few years
* went to another school, either in Fredericksburg, Stafford County, or Westmoreland County
* excelled in mathematics and learned the rudiments of surveying
*  not taught Latin or Greek like many gentlemen's sons, and he never learned a foreign language
* he didn't attend college, formal education ended around age of 15
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* June 1777 congress ordered General Gorge Washington to take command of continental army besieging British in Boston  
* little practical experience in managing large, conventional  armies, proved to be capible and resilient leader of the American military forces during war

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