Two days earlier Thomas Hickey, a member of the elite guard responsible for protecting George Washington, was convicted of mutiny and sedition, and on the morning of June 28, 1776, was hanged for ...

When the Revolutionary War broke out in 1775, George Washington initially struggled to muster up an army powerful enough to ...

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Archaeologist Nick Beard was gently pushing aside the hardened dirt in the basement of George Washington’s home ... probably ...

Feb. 22, 1732 George Washington is born in a modest house at ... Thomas Paine was an admirer of Washington and spent the desperate autumn of 1776 as an aide-de-camp in the field.

Library of Congress Although there was no way George Washington could have ... The siege of Boston from June 1775 to March 1776 marked Washington’s debut as commander in chief.

Washington won the presidency by unanimous electoral vote in both 1788 and in 1792. Challenges Upon his inauguration as the first president on April 30, 1789, George Washington assumed office under ...

The 1776–1976 Bicentennial Quarter holds a ... you will find a portrait of President George Washington facing left. The design pays homage to the spirit of the American Revolution and the ...