George WashingtonEssay title: George WashingtonBorn in Westmoreland County, Va., on Feb. 22, 1732. George Washington of six children of Augustine Washington and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington. At the age of 16, he lived there and at other plantations along the Rappahannock and Potomac Rivers, including the river later to be known as Mount Vernon. His education was simple, as surveying, mathematics, and “rules of civility.” After he lost his father in 1743 at the age of eleven. He was soon sent to live with his half brother Lawrence, who had served in the Royal Navy. Who soon became something as a substitute father for George. Since Lawrence had married into the Fairfax family, influential and well-known Virginians who helped launch Georges career. But his mother discouraged the Fairfax family from doing so.
Even though George was interested in a naval career. Instead George joined a surveying party sent out to the Shenandoah Valley by Lord Fairfax, a land baron. For the next few years, George conducted surveys in Virginia and present West Virginia and gained a lifetime interest in the West. In 1751-52 he also accompanied Lawrence on a visit he made to Barbados, West Indies, in an effort to cure Lawrence of tuberculosis, but Lawrence died in 1752. George in the end inherited the Mount Vernon estate.
The next year, Washington began his military career when the royal governor appointed him to an adjutant ship in the militia, as a major. That same year, the growing rivalry between the British and French over control of the Ohio Valley, soon to erupt into the French and Indian War (1754-63). Which created new opportunities for the young determined Washington. In 1754, achieving the rank of lieutenant colonel and then colonel in the militia, Washington led a group that sought to challenge French control of the Ohio River Valley, but met defeat at Fort Necessity, PA. In April 1754, on his way to set up a post at the Forks of the Ohio (which is now Pittsburgh). Washington learned that the French had already set up a fort there. Warned that the French were advancing, he quickly set up fortifications at Great Meadows, Pa., fittingly naming the entrenchment Fort Necessity, and marched to intercept advancing French troops. In the resulting battle the French commander the sieur de Jumonville was killed and most of his men were captured. Washington pulled his small army back into Fort Necessity. Where he was surprised by a battle fought by the French all day, in the rain. Surrounded by enemy troops, exhausted, ammunition useless and food supply low. Washington surrendered. Under the terms of the surrender signed that day, he was allowed to march his troops back to Williamsburg, in embarrassment.
Depressed by his defeat and angered by discrimination between British and colonial officers in pay and rank. Washington resigned his commission at the end of 1754. The next year, he volunteered to join British general Edward Braddocks expedition against the French. When Braddock was ambushed by the Indians and French on the Monongahela River, Washington, though ill, tried to gather the Virginia troops. Washingtons own military reputation was enhanced, and in 1755, at the age of 23, Washington was promoted to colonel and appointed commander in chief of the Virginia militia, with responsibility for defending the frontier. Assured that the Virginia frontier was safe from French attack, Washington left the army in 1758.
Washington entered politics, serving (1759-74) in Virginias House of Burgesses. In January 1759 he married Martha Dandridge Custis, a wealthy and attractive young widow with two small children. After 1769, Washington became a leader in Virginias resistance to Great Britains colonial policies. At first he hoped for reconciliation with Britain, although some British policies had touched him personally. Prejudice against colonial military officers had rankled extremely, and British land policies and restrictions on western expansion after 1763 had seriously delayed his plans for western land conjecture. A delegate (1774-75) to the First and Second Continental Congress, Washington did not participate dynamically in the negotiations,
In February 1764 Washington sent a letter to his first Cabinet of General John Henry Harrison, informing him all of his concerns. He also declared, with his usual earnestness, that we all must accept America’s “independence” while supporting the rights of free trade and free people.
In May 1766, Washington announced a plan to give all the islands in the Pacific a free trade corridor to bring food to the West Coast and to improve trade relations. It would provide economic, technological and military facilities to help those at risk (as well as local residents).
[See page 39 of the first book of “The Declaration of Independence” by Sir David Hume.] A very important decision which may have been avoided but which was a major factor to drive the West Coast expansion, was the decision to provide the colonies with land for the purpose of moving, by way of transporting and using coalitions, for political and business, the various nations of the continent across a bridge. At the time, Americans knew, at very little risk in the West Coast, that a free trade bridge would not work. Washington wanted the West Coast area to be divided according to three main points, according to the needs of the colonized area and according to the national interest. He reasoned for all of these points to be made known. As early as April 1767, he began to provide assistance to a number of Colonies, as well as local members of the National Guard. The British navy was the great destroyer of freedom, the first warship to come to terms with the independence of the US. At the time of the war Washington was still at war with the Americans. It was as British officials thought they might do.
With the establishment of the colonies on the American continent in 1832, Washington had to prepare for the Great War. In order to continue the expansion of his colony and his plans for the western coast. The First Continental Congress of the 1820 had decided to support the expansion of Britain to the Atlantic, and, by then, Britain was still at war with the American colonies. In addition, Washington wanted to extend his territorial holdings and expansion farther into the West and to expand his political power. In early August 1825, he submitted a resolution to Congress calling on Congress to allow the New London colony to build a naval base for future American colonies in the Atlantic. The resolution stipulated that America should build the base and ensure that the American citizen could “be assured that all of the lands, territories and waters of all of the colonies, when in conflict with each other, belong to the common government and that all persons, not connected with these, belong to the common government only.” For an effective response to Britain’s expansion of British powers, Washington requested the Second Continental Congress to establish permanent international rules and commissions in Washington, Delaware and Virginia with authority to hold these meetings.
Washington was to provide the colonial armies with all equipment and personnel necessary to
In February 1764 Washington sent a letter to his first Cabinet of General John Henry Harrison, informing him all of his concerns. He also declared, with his usual earnestness, that we all must accept America’s “independence” while supporting the rights of free trade and free people.
In May 1766, Washington announced a plan to give all the islands in the Pacific a free trade corridor to bring food to the West Coast and to improve trade relations. It would provide economic, technological and military facilities to help those at risk (as well as local residents).
[See page 39 of the first book of “The Declaration of Independence” by Sir David Hume.] A very important decision which may have been avoided but which was a major factor to drive the West Coast expansion, was the decision to provide the colonies with land for the purpose of moving, by way of transporting and using coalitions, for political and business, the various nations of the continent across a bridge. At the time, Americans knew, at very little risk in the West Coast, that a free trade bridge would not work. Washington wanted the West Coast area to be divided according to three main points, according to the needs of the colonized area and according to the national interest. He reasoned for all of these points to be made known. As early as April 1767, he began to provide assistance to a number of Colonies, as well as local members of the National Guard. The British navy was the great destroyer of freedom, the first warship to come to terms with the independence of the US. At the time of the war Washington was still at war with the Americans. It was as British officials thought they might do.
With the establishment of the colonies on the American continent in 1832, Washington had to prepare for the Great War. In order to continue the expansion of his colony and his plans for the western coast. The First Continental Congress of the 1820 had decided to support the expansion of Britain to the Atlantic, and, by then, Britain was still at war with the American colonies. In addition, Washington wanted to extend his territorial holdings and expansion farther into the West and to expand his political power. In early August 1825, he submitted a resolution to Congress calling on Congress to allow the New London colony to build a naval base for future American colonies in the Atlantic. The resolution stipulated that America should build the base and ensure that the American citizen could “be assured that all of the lands, territories and waters of all of the colonies, when in conflict with each other, belong to the common government and that all persons, not connected with these, belong to the common government only.” For an effective response to Britain’s expansion of British powers, Washington requested the Second Continental Congress to establish permanent international rules and commissions in Washington, Delaware and Virginia with authority to hold these meetings.
Washington was to provide the colonial armies with all equipment and personnel necessary to