click image for close-up After the revolutionary war, the Continental Congress awarded General ... of the Battle of Cowpens recorded in John Marshall's biography of George Washington.

In 1776, as George ... his death at the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775. The following year, Abigail Adams inoculated herself and her children against the disease. The Death of General Warren ...

Though they worked in close proximity for years, Alexander Hamilton and George ... aide and the General, twice his age, whom Hamilton always addressed as "Your Excellency." Washington was prudent ...

That famous description of George ... summer tested Washington, it was only a small taste of what was to come. By 1776 he and his men were in a struggle for survival, yielding battle after battle ...

It remains one of the most remarkable turns in battle in recorded history, and the press back home gave credit to “Patton’s ...

Washington won the presidency by unanimous electoral vote in both 1788 and in 1792. Challenges Upon his inauguration as the first president on April 30, 1789, George Washington assumed office under ...

George Washington was the son of Augustine ... Near Toledo, Ohio, Washington sent federal troops to fight seven tribes of Native Americans in the Battle of Fallen Timbers in the summer of 1794.