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Born
George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 at Wakefield Farm, Westmoreland County, in the British colony of Virginia. -
Finished Formal Schooling
George Washington had attended formal schooling and ended it by the Age of fifteen. Around 1747. -
Surveyor
George Washington had excelled in surveying. He worked for Lord Thomas Fairfax. It had led him to earn enough to acquire his own land. -
Commander of the Virginia Malitia
December 1752, “Washington, who had no previous military experience, was made a commander of the Virginia militia. He saw action in the French and Indian War and was eventually put in charge of all of Virginia’s militia forces.” -
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Virginia House of Burgesses
By 1759, Washington had resigned his commission, returned to Mount Vernon and was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses, where he served until 1774” -
Second Continental Congress
“When the Second Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia in May 1775, Washington, one of the Virginia delegates, was elected Commander in Chief of the Continental Army.” -
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The Revolutionary War
The date in which the colonies and Great Britains’ fight happend -
First Step
The first step that George Washington took against the British was on July 3, 1775, at Cambridge, Massachusetts. -
French Allies
George Washington Allied with the French -
British Surrender
George Washinton had forced the British to surrender in 1781 in Cornwallis at Yorktown. -
First President of the United States
Five events during his PresidencyWhen is consitution was ratified, in 1787, George Washinton was unanimously elected President of the United States -
Death of his Wife
When his wife Lawrence dies he inherits Lawrence’s Potomac River Plantation and frees 300 of his enslaved people