When George Washington, from Virginia, arrived in Cambridge 250 years ago, one of the first things he did was talk to his Massachusetts soldiers about the need for a unified American effort.

In 1787, General George Washington presided over the Constitutional Conventionu2028with sphinx-like inscrutability. He betrayed not a flickeru2028of emotion as the architects of a new nation ...

“Not in my wildest dreams,” Schwarzenegger said, “did I think that one day this immigrant would be asked to lay a wreath at George Washington’s tomb.” Only in Washington’s America.

The George Washington statue sits outside the National Gallery in London’s Trafalgar Square. It’s one of six statues of U.S. presidents in the city.