George Washington

He promoted and oversaw implementation of a strong, well-financed national government, but remained impartial in the fierce rivalry between subordinates Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton.

He became the United States Minister to France in May 1785, and subsequently the nation's first secretary of state in 1790–1793 under President George Washington.

He promoted and oversaw implementation of a strong, well-financed national government, but remained impartial in the fierce rivalry between subordinates Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton.

As the first Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton was the main author of the economic policies of George Washington's administration.

During the Revolutionary War he was a delegate to the Continental Congress, was unanimously appointed commander-in-chief of the Army, and led an allied campaign to victory at the Siege of Yorktown ending the conflict.

The Siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the Surrender at Yorktown, German Battle or the Siege of Little York, ending on October 19, 1781, at Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British peer and Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis.

Washington's Farewell Address was widely regarded as one of the most influential statements on republicanism.

George Washington's farewell address is a letter written by President George Washington as a valedictory to "friends and fellow-citizens" after 20 years of public service to the United States.

During the Revolutionary War he was a delegate to the Continental Congress, was unanimously appointed commander-in-chief of the Army, and led an allied campaign to victory at the Siege of Yorktown ending the conflict.

General George Washington was the commander-in-chief of the army throughout the war.

In the French Revolution, Washington proclaimed a policy of neutrality while sanctioning the Jay Treaty.

The Treaty was designed by Alexander Hamilton and supported by President George Washington.

When he was three, the family moved from Popes Creek plantation to the Epsewasson plantation on the Potomac River.

Mount Vernon was the plantation of George Washington, the first President of the United States, and his wife, Martha Dandridge Custis Washington.

Washington has been memorialized by monuments, art, places, stamps, and currency, and he has been ranked by scholars among the four greatest American presidents.

Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and George Washington are most often listed as the three highest-rated Presidents among historians.

He was the first child of Augustine and Mary Ball Washington, Augustine's second wife.

Augustine Washington Sr. (November 12, 1694 – April 12, 1743) was the father of the first U.S. President George Washington.

This is said to be the setting of an anecdote of Parson Weems, who averred that Augustine once asked George whether he had damaged a cherry tree, and the boy replied, "I cannot tell a lie; I cut it with my little hatchet."

Mason Locke Weems (October 11, 1759 – May 23, 1825), usually referred to as Parson Weems, was an American book agent and author who wrote the first biography of George Washington immediately after his death.

His great-grandfather John Washington settled in Virginia in 1657, established Popes Creek tobbaco plantation, and accumulated land and slaves, as did his son Lawrence, and his grandson Augustine.

Lawrence Washington (1659 – February 1698), a colonial-era American who is principally remembered as the paternal grandfather of George Washington.

He was the first child of Augustine and Mary Ball Washington, Augustine's second wife.

Mary Ball Washington, born Mary Ball (November 30, 1708 – August 25, 1789), was the second wife of Augustine Washington, a planter in Virginia, and the mother of George Washington, the first President of the United States, and five other children.

Three years later, they relocated to Ferry Farm near Fredericksburg.

Ferry Farm (also known as the George Washington Boyhood Home Site or the Ferry Farm Site) is the name of the farm and home at which George Washington spent much of his childhood.

When he was three, the family moved from Popes Creek plantation to the Epsewasson plantation on the Potomac River.

George Washington, the first President of the United States, was born in, surveyed, and spent most of his life within, the Potomac basin.

George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 at Popes Creek in Westmoreland County, Virginia.

A member of the assembly, he was a great-grandfather of George Washington, general and the first United States president.

George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 at Popes Creek in Westmoreland County, Virginia.

Westmoreland County was the birthplace of George Washington, the first President of the United States (at the former settlement of Bridges Creek, Virginia); of James Monroe, the fifth President; and of General Robert E. Lee, commander of the Confederate armies.

He was initially trained in musters and drills; subsequently the lieutenant governor of Virginia, Robert Dinwiddie, appointed him adjutant, first to the Southern district in December 1752 and later to the Northern and Eastern districts as well.

Dinwiddie is credited for starting the military career of George Washington.

In 1749, Washington received a surveyor's license from the College of William & Mary, and was appointed surveyor of Culpeper, Virginia, with Fairfax's influence.

The original town was surveyed by a young George Washington, who at age 27 was a protege of the 6th Lord Fairfax.

Washington inherited Ferry Farm and ten slaves, while his older half-brother Lawrence inherited Epsewasson and changed its name to Mount Vernon.

Washington was the older and beloved half-brother of George Washington, the future President of the United States.

In 1749, Washington received a surveyor's license from the College of William & Mary, and was appointed surveyor of Culpeper, Virginia, with Fairfax's influence.

A young George Washington (1732–1799) also received his surveyor's license through the college.

In July 1754, the French responded by attacking the fort in the ten-hour Battle of Fort Necessity, which ended in Washington's surrender.

The engagement, along with the May 28 skirmish known as the Battle of Jumonville Glen, was George Washington's first military experience and the only surrender of his military career.

He then became a leader of the Virginia militia in the French and Indian War.

The dispute erupted into violence in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in May 1754, during which Virginia militiamen under the command of 22 year-old George Washington ambushed a French patrol.

At age 27, Washington married Martha Dandridge Custis, the 28-year-old wealthy widow of Daniel Parke Custis.

Martha Washington (née Dandridge; June 2 1731 – May 22, 1802) was the wife of George Washington, the first President of the United States.

Half-King Tanacharison discovered a detachment of French troops east of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, led by Joseph Coulon de Jumonville, so Washington built an entrenched camp at Great Meadows, called Fort Necessity.

His defeat and killing at the Battle of Jumonville Glen by forces led by George Washington was one of the sparks that ignited the Seven Years' War, known as the French and Indian War on the North American front.

Half-King Tanacharison discovered a detachment of French troops east of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, led by Joseph Coulon de Jumonville, so Washington built an entrenched camp at Great Meadows, called Fort Necessity.

10 mi southeast of Uniontown is Fort Necessity, built by George Washington during the French and Indian War (part of the international Seven Years' War) as well as the site of the Battle of Jumonville Glen, where the North American branch of the war began.