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On January 6, 1759, Washington, at age 26, married Martha Dandridge Custis, the 27-year-old widow of wealthy plantation owner Daniel Parke Custis. Martha was intelligent, gracious, and experienced in managing a planter's estate, and the couple had a happy marriage. [46] They lived at Mount Vernon, where Washington cultivated tobacco and wheat. [47]
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Henry Knox served as chief artillery officer in most of Washington's campaigns. His earliest achievement was the capture of over 50 pieces of artillery, primarily cannons, at New York's Fort Ticonderoga, one of the keys to Washington's capture of Boston in early 1776. Knox became the first secretary of war under the U.S. Constitution in 1789. [25]
Kwasny, Mark V. Washington's Partisan War, 1775-1783 (1996) online Archived 2018-06-12 at the Wayback Machine; Laver, Harry S. and Jeffrey J. Matthews, eds. The Art of Command: Military Leadership from George Washington to Colin Powell (2008) pp 11–32. online Archived 2018-06-12 at the Wayback Machine; McCullough, David. 1776 (2005) Neimeyer ...
In June 1775, George Washington, a charismatic Virginia political leader with combat experience, was unanimously appointed commander of a newly organized Continental Army. [8] The Boston campaign continued with the Continental Army besieging British-occupied Boston until the British retreated to Halifax, Nova Scotia in March 1776. [ 9 ]
George Washington, widely viewed as the first president, was elected into office in 1789 after leading the Continental Army to victory over Britain in the Revolutionary War.
Genetic analysis has shed light on a long-standing mystery surrounding the fates of President George Washington’s younger brother Samuel and his kin. George Washington family secrets revealed by ...
November 12 to 15, 1776 November 12 – Washington crosses to the west side of the Hudson River at Fort Lee. Demolished in 1899. Hackensack, New Jersey: November 15, 1776 Washington is on his way south when he receives news of a British threat against Fort Washington (east side of the Hudson River). He returns to Fort Lee.