The Journal of Major George Washington

The Journal of Major George Washington

Author: George Washington

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 1963

Total Pages: 41

ISBN-13: 9780813904023

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An account of his first official mission, made as emissary from the Governor of Virginia to the commandant of the French forces on the Ohio, October, 1753-January, 1754.


George Washington

George Washington

Author: George Washington

Publisher: Liberty Fund

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 754

ISBN-13:

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Based almost entirely on materials reproduced from: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799 / John C. Fitzpatrick, editor. Includes indexes.


The Diaries V. 6; Jan. , 1790-Dec. 1799

The Diaries V. 6; Jan. , 1790-Dec. 1799

Author: George Washington

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13:

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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.


George Washington: the Forge of Experience, 1732-1775

George Washington: the Forge of Experience, 1732-1775

Author: James Thomas Flexner

Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13:

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A biography of America's first President from birth to the beginning of the Revolutionary War, portraying the personal qualities which contributed to his greatness.


His Excellency

His Excellency

Author: Joseph J. Ellis

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2005-11-08

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1400032539

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National Bestseller To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians of the Revolutionary era. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes seems as remote as his effigy on Mount Rushmore, Ellis assesses George Washington as a military and political leader and a man whose “statue-like solidity” concealed volcanic energies and emotions. Here is the impetuous young officer whose miraculous survival in combat half-convinced him that he could not be killed. Here is the free-spending landowner whose debts to English merchants instilled him with a prickly resentment of imperial power. We see the general who lost more battles than he won and the reluctant president who tried to float above the partisan feuding of his cabinet. His Excellency is a magnificent work, indispensable to an understanding not only of its subject but also of the nation he brought into being.


Catalogue of the Engraved Portraits of Washington

Catalogue of the Engraved Portraits of Washington

Author: Charles Henry Hart

Publisher: Franklin Classics

Published: 2018-10-13

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 9780342775774

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