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For two centuries George Washington has stood First in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
Author : George Washington
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Page : 1252 pages
File Size : 45,79 MB
Release : 1997-02-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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For two centuries George Washington has stood First in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
Author : George Washington
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Page : 38 pages
File Size : 14,83 MB
Release : 1913
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Author : George Washington
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Page : 22 pages
File Size : 29,86 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
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ISBN : 9781258502386
Author : Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 36,4 MB
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1501126431
A startling and eye-opening look into America’s First Family, Never Caught is the powerful story about a daring woman of “extraordinary grit” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly left behind his beloved Mount Vernon to serve in Philadelphia, the temporary seat of the nation’s capital. In setting up his household he brought along nine slaves, including Ona Judge. As the President grew accustomed to Northern ways, there was one change he couldn’t abide: Pennsylvania law required enslaved people be set free after six months of residency in the state. Rather than comply, Washington decided to circumvent the law. Every six months he sent the slaves back down south just as the clock was about to expire. Though Ona Judge lived a life of relative comfort, she was denied freedom. So, when the opportunity presented itself one clear and pleasant spring day in Philadelphia, Judge left everything she knew to escape to New England. Yet freedom would not come without its costs. At just twenty-two-years-old, Ona became the subject of an intense manhunt led by George Washington, who used his political and personal contacts to recapture his property. “A crisp and compulsively readable feat of research and storytelling” (USA TODAY), historian and National Book Award finalist Erica Armstrong Dunbar weaves a powerful tale and offers fascinating new scholarship on how one young woman risked everything to gain freedom from the famous founding father and most powerful man in the United States at the time.
Author : George Washington
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Page : 526 pages
File Size : 39,1 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Presidents
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Author : George Washington
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Page : 70 pages
File Size : 23,79 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Generals
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Author : Elizabeth Blair Lee
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 48,1 MB
Release : 1999-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252068591
Elizabeth Blair Lee was raised in Washington's political circles, and her husband, Samuel Phillips Lee, third cousin to Robert E. Lee, commanded the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War. When they married, Elizabeth promised to write every day they were apart. Of the hundreds of letters with which she kept her promise, Virginia Jeans Laas has edited a choice selection that illuminates the functioning of a nineteenth-century family and the Mrs. Lee's unique perspective on the political and military affairs of the nation's beleaguered capital.
Author : George Washington
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 10,99 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Washington was rarely isolated from the world during his eventful life. His diary for 1751-52 relates a voyage to Barbados when he was nineteen. The next two accounts concern the early phases of the French and Indian War, in which Washington commanded a Virginia regiment. By the 1760s when Washington's diaries resume, he considered himself retired from public life, but George III was on the British throne and in the American colonies the process of unrest was beginning that would ultimately place Washington in command of a revolutionary army. Even as he traveled to Philadelphia in 1787 to chair the Constitutional Convention, however, and later as president, Washington's first love remained his plantation, Mount Vernon. In his diary, he religiously recorded the changing methods of farming he employed there and the pleasures of riding and hunting. Rich in material from this private sphere, The Diaries of George Washington offer historians and anyone interested in Washington a closer view of the first president in this bicentennial year of his death.
Author : George Washington
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Page : 626 pages
File Size : 31,45 MB
Release : 1931
Category : Government publications
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Author : George Washington
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Page : 156 pages
File Size : 22,81 MB
Release : 1905
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