George Washington ... Washington’s Continental Army had suffered repeated setbacks. But in the winter of 1776-1777 it had delivered sharp defeats on the British and their German allies in ...

Feb. 22, 1732 George Washington is born in a modest house ... most hardscrabble farmers and small-time merchants, holding the British army at bay in Boston. Washington was determined to impose ...

After the Bristish occupying army left Boston, Washington issued general orders ... poets and balladeers were already replacing the British George with an American version of the same name.

Though they worked in close proximity for years, Alexander Hamilton and George ... Hamilton, Washington found a brilliant administrator who could help bring order to an unruly army, and later ...

9, 1777, for Gen. George Washington’s Headquarters as his Continental Army plotted to attack the British army, writes Troy Grubb in Pennsylvania Heritage. The town, then known as Chads Ford ...

Against heavy odds, Washington outmaneuvered British forces to lead the colonists to victory ... Challenges Upon his inauguration as the first president on April 30, 1789, George Washington assumed ...

The army colonel and his 100-man ... valued his wife's political acumen. As the British advanced, the first lady perceived the George Washington portrait's symbolic importance to the nation.