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    George Washington: A biography of George Washington, one of America's founding fathers
    George Washington: A biography of George Washington, one of America's founding fathers
    George Washington: A biography of George Washington, one of America's founding fathers
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    George Washington: A biography of George Washington, one of America's founding fathers

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    GEORGE WASHINGTON
     

    George Washington lived an incredible life, during a time that can be hard to comprehend.
    This book details the life of the first President, including his childhood, his time at war, his politics, and his life outside of the public eye.

    Inside, you will discover the

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIngram Publishing
    Release dateMar 15, 2020
    ISBN9781761032110
    George Washington: A biography of George Washington, one of America's founding fathers

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      George Washington - Adam West

      Introduction

      Thank you for taking the time to pick up this book, documenting the life of George Washington.

      George Washington lived an incredible life, during a time that can be hard to comprehend. This book details the life of the first President, including his childhood, his time at war, his politics, and his life outside of the public eye.

      In the following chapters you will discover the many failures and victories that George Washington experienced in his life. You will learn of his journey to become the first President, and just how impactful he was in the creation and development of the United States of America.

      Once again, thanks for choosing this book. I hope that you find it to be insightful and enjoyable!

      Chapter 1: George’s Early Years

      George was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia on the 22nd of February in 1732.  Very little is known about when George was a small child and as such, many tales have been passed around, some true and others not.  Some of the stories were about when George ‘supposedly' after chopping down a cherry tree which his father prized so dearly, threw a silver dollar all the way across the Potomac River.  The story has it that he openly confessed to said crime.  Did it happen?  Probably not.  But we will never know for sure. 

      George was home schooled from age seven to fifteen and studied with their local church sexton.  Later on, there was a schoolmaster that taught him in geography, English classics, Latin, and math. 

      George was lucky to live long enough to be president.  He suffered from dysentery, malaria, and pleurisy, all before he was thirty years old.  On his way back from one famous expedition, he fell into an icy river off of his raft, and nearly drowned.

      When it came to common sense knowledge, the type that would help him survive in life, he learned it through the people he met. Growing up he spent a lot of time around plantation foremen and backwoodsmen.  By the time, he was a teenager he already knew how to raise stock, survey land, and grow tobacco.

      When George turned eleven, his father died, leaving his half-brother, Lawrence, to finish raising him.

      His father's death derailed George's plans to go to England to attend school, as his big brothers had gotten to do.  Instead, he would join the Royal Navy.  He could enroll as an officer cadet; he would start scraping together the money he needed to buy his commission right away so that when he turned 15 he would be ready.

      Lawrence was good to him, and he had inherited Little Hunting Creek Plantation which was the family's place.  He had married well to Anne Fairfax whose father was Colonel William Fairfax.  Anne was good enough to teach George the finer things in life about colonial culture. 

      When 1748 rolled around, George was sixteen and was traveling with a surveying party and plotting land in and around Virginia's western territory.  The next year, with the help of Lord Fairfax, George was appointed to the office of surveyor for Culpeper County.  The next two years George was so busy surveying land in Frederick, Culpeper, and Augusta counties that he did not realize how fast time was passing him by.  Working like this helped to toughen up his mind and body, and the experience helped make him more resourceful.  It also heightened his interest in

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