1. George Washington
... in rank and pay, he resigned his commission near the end of 1754. The next year however, he volunteered to joined British general Edward Braddock's expedition against the French. When the French and their Indian allies ambushed Braddock on the Monongahela River, Washington although seriously ill, tried to rally the Virginia troops. Whatever public criticism attended the debacle, Washington's ... 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 o...
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