George Washington of Virginia, the commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, was elected the first ...

General Howe was forced to take these strategic ... himself after everything that his mother was not. Feb. 22, 1732 George Washington is born in a modest house at Popes Creek, Westmoreland County ...

In 1776, as George Washington was leading the Continental ... Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) General Washington, who had survived smallpox as a young man ...

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 ...

NEWTOWN BOROUGH, PA — The public is invited to sit down to dinner with General George Washington on Sept. 13 at the historic ...