and his brother went to Barbados in an effort rid Lawrence of tuberculosis. Lawrence died in 1752, soon after the brothers returned. As a result George got the Mount Vernon lands.

By 1753, the problems between the French and the British were growing, th

In 1780 the main theater of the war shifted to the south. Although the campaigns in Virginia and the Carolinas were conducted by other generals, Washington was still responsible for the overall direction of the war. After the arrival of the French army in 1780 he concentrated on organizing allied efforts and in 1781 launched, in cooperation with French, the brilliantly planned and executed Yorktown Campaign against Charles Cornwallis, securing (Oct. 19, 1781) the American victory.

Washington took command of the troops surrounding British-occupied Boston on July 3, using the next few months to training the undisciplined 14,000-man army and trying to obtain badly needed gunpowder and other supplies. Early March 1776, using cannons brought in from Ticonderoga by Henry Knox, Washington took over Dorchester Heights, effectively controlling the city and forcing the British to leave on March 17. He then moved to defend New York City against the British land and sea forces of Sir William Howe. In the last months of 1776, desperately short of men and supplies, Washington almost gave up. He had lost New York City to the British; enlistment was almost up for a number of the troops, and man others were deserting. Civilian morale was falling rapidly, and Congress, faced with the possibility of a British attack on Philadelphia, had withdrawn.

Washington’s popularity had grown greatly during the war.

Saddened by his defeat and angered by discrimination between British and colonial officers in rank and pay, he quit his position near the end of 1754. The next year, he volunteered to re-join the fight against the French. He joined up with British general Edward Braddock. When Braddock and his troops were ambushed by the French and their Indian allies on the Monongahela River, Washington, even though he was very sick, attempted to rally the Virginia troops. Washington's military reputation was enhanced as a result of this, and in 1755, at a very young 23, he gained the rank of colonel and was made commander in chief of the Virginia troops, with responsibility for defending the frontier. In 1758 he took an major role in the successful attack by Gen. John Forbes against Fort Duquesne.

In 1758 George Washington left the Virginian frontier to retur

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