He was born in Westmoreland County, Va., on February 22, 1732, George Washington was the oldest son of Augustine Washington and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington, who were Prosperous Virginia gentry of English descent. George spent his early years on the family estate along the Potomac River. His early education included the study of such subject’s as mathematics, surveying, the class classics, and “rules of activity.” His father died in 1743, and soon thereafter George went to live with his half brother Lawrence, who became something of a substitute father for his brother, had married into the Fairfax family, prominent and influential Virginians who helped launch George’s career.

An early ambition to go to sea had been effectively discouraged by Georges’s mother; instead he turned to surveying, securing, (1748) and an appointment to survey Lord Fairfax’s lands in the Shenandoah Valley. He helped lay out the Virginia town of Belhaven (now Alexandria) in 1749 and was appointed surveyor for Culpe

George Washington had one of a kind life. He was very strong willed man and the people loved him for that mentally and physically. George’s life he had to fight in what he believed in and that was the American people. He stood by his country side by side and never gave up a single chance. I was deeply moved by his honor and trust. Now, in our world he is on every dollar bill and if he could of known how much his country felt about him. I am pretty sure that he did know how much he was cared for. George Washington had a great life and ruled a great country of the United States.

In 1780 the main theater of the war shifted to the south. Although other generals, including Nathaniel Greene and Daniel Morgan, conducted the campaigns in Virginia and the Carolinas Washington was still responsible for the overall direction of the war. After the arrival of the French army in 1780 he concentrated on coordinating allied efforts in the 1781 launched, in cooperation with the Comte De Rochambeau and the Comte d’Estaing, the brilliantly planned and executed Yorktown campaign against Charles Cornwallis securing the American victory.

Washington had grown enormously in the stature during the war. A man of unquestioned integrity, he began by accepting the advice of more experience officers such as Gates and Charles Lee, but quickly learned to trust his own judgment. He sometimes railed at Congress for its failure to supply troops and for the bungling fiscal measures that frustrated his efforts to secure adequate material. Gradually however he developed what was perhaps his greatest strength in s society suspicious of the military, his ability to deal effectively with the civil authority. Whatever his private opinions his relations with Congress and with he state government were exemplary, despite the fact that wartime powers sometimes amounted to dictatorial authority. On the battlefield Washington relied on a policy of trail and error, eventually becoming a master of improvisation. Often accused of being overly cautious he could be bold when success seemed possible. He learned to use the short-term militia skillfully and to combine green troops with veterans to produce an efficient fighting force.

In April 1754, on his way to establish a post at the Forks of the Ohio (the current site of Pittsburgh), Washington learned that the French had already erected a fort there. Warned that the French were advancing, he quickly threw up fortifications at Great Meadows, Pa., aptly naming the entrenchment Fort Necessity, and marched to intercept advancing French troops. In the resulting skirmish the French commander the Sieur De Jumnoville was killed and most of his men were captured. George Washington pulled his small force back into Fort Necessity where he was overwhelmed (July 3) by the French in an all day battle fought in drenching rain. Surrounded by enemy troops, with his food supply almost exhausted and his dampened ammunition useless, Washington capitulated. Under the terms of the surrender signed that day, he was permitted to march his troops back to Williamsburg.

Colonial morale was briefly received by the capture of Trenton, N.J., a brilliantly conceived attack in which Washington crossed the Delaware River on Christmas night 1776 and surprised the predominantly Hessian Garrison. Advancing to Princeton, N.J., he routed the British ther

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