Show FIVE MINUTE CHATS ABOUT OUR presidents WWW by JAMES MORGAN GEORGE washington ft I 1 1732 feb 22 born near va 1753 first expedition to the wet west 1754 second expedition 1755 on a staff t aff of gen braddock 1759 married martha quails ItS HINGTON was aa made of the aw washington same clay na as most americans w valio ho have won aon high leadership and like them lie cut ills his teeth on the crust of poverty only four or five 0 of f our presidents came from poorer homes than aluin our first president and he lift biad I 1 le less S s schooling than four fifths of ills successors ors lie he was in fact the only president in ili the first forty years ulio lio was without a college education not stinting starting to school until elgha lie hit had to leave at fourteen to RO go to work thenceforth until the lie revolution the and fields were vere ili his only schoolroom and life ills his only schoolmaster we never ner ein can truly understand this man inan if we e start nith alth the mistaken iden that ip was hie I 1 lie product of wealth and aristocracy y ills people really were a phien though alas highly re fai tilly living on the out blits skirts kl its of tile castle which alch set up ill its manors ini nors in ili the james river re aslon ion georges grobi e s onn it father who w nt r at earliest portrait OTIC inie line lind had been a salting cap capiali lali in ili tile hie arilde with ill lie mother country loft left ills his ire ife mid ani children nt it his dell tit the five thousand liens acres ol of land ann oe o e or less unproductive IMY I 1 MY tio att 0 slaves a slender pia se will it ii lean larder while nt mt vernon ernon which alch lis lils old pst Is t brother ollier lr linw bit hal hilie hp be lennus the simple ants ot of surveying sun e ing and loril lord fairfax ahn livel lied nearby nei rhy employed him to suney sum ft ast st t state estate in ili the valley of A lirginia in ili ills his young manhood washington bount ills his inclinations strongly stron berit bent to anns to 10 softer arni thin own those of mar anis the young oung militarist al ano alo o was vaa inclined prying posterity finds him lit at sl als tron teen pining for a lii lanil heaney litant iho would not line have tin the pen iles suri urve or ile he received rc elud nu iasu by hla his own on confession a cruel wence nence front from it miss bets betsy and ans it rejected liy by miss f new ark at lest last the oft disappointed dl mi oln ted unnur benine to the white alte llou se ie on tit the Pani tinkey end and once more lit hc lost lal ills heart luvirt the llie mistress of the manor sirs mrs beartha dandridge cu custis wits wise lie enough ou keep keel it being it widow do of seven SOM ii ears the outlier rf if to tw children the owne hinr r if 1 lurge large i rge state when fl flink ing embers from llo hir war fields of europe ignited titi elvage forests of the new world ton ion was a illitia it major ili binl I 1 IL 1 r was as on a InIs mission slon to ill in ohio it 11 perilous journey joi inie of tell weeks 1 through it a antry wintry desola ilon the next net year lie he went mt again w all I 1 il a 0 hand if soldiers for now the se 1 vi i years pitr lind hild spread to america now 11 raddock ile to nw biorn t alie tit coto colonial n at breed nie lie should them liow how british ivi nii lars ulars r g I 1 t in I 1 proper ln the rid red children ildren ili or of the il c fori ost st to alir fin in the lie european plan braddock ml fell neld ills troops tn aps ops on fin tile lie iaia at the liend of ills grant grai in the wilderness the lie foi fo ili 1 fiend I arv rend lend lii by colonel although ington had ti id rii no llo ho he lind had imide it most inot liidi conquest ionn von quest aest when tile seven 1 irs ars war vir came lie he was still nn all and to him hill nn an island three miles still ans tiomi 1 in 1 ills 1119 it tact with british officers ho uns its Iq eked to alili then allens to aln hlll lii ili N new ew world tin lind only it ait I 1 in their tes eyes with inter niile neslon III aliey ey 11 undertook to teach ti HI hill t lin ills his place amt with lie he ob lecter ny by the time the sion reven vvan war was ans oner om r tile colonial olon lil volon 1 I 1 no nn longer mis nn vilgil that I 1 1 1111 n wils nal ind lift un 01 m ilcin FIRST IN WAR AND PEACE 0 1775 june 18 15 appointed commander in chief 1781 oct 15 received the sur render of cornwallis at yo yorktown rato w n 1788 dec 23 surrendered rendered ur his hl commission to congress 1789 april 30 inaugurated first president aged fifty seven save n 1793 march 4 inaugurated a second time 1796 september farewell address 1797 march 4 retired 1799 dee dec 14 died 11 9 C C 0 fir choice of washington to be ba ane in chief of tile hie idec audrin Is one of nf the mysterious but happy accidents of history nothing in ill the ilie deeds of tills this mi liffin colone who tin amil lost every light fight that lie lini fought pointed him out ns is tile the tin only inan tn in meet the armies of the greatest empire tn ili ill theu world orld nothing nettling in ili the words of this farmer who never ner made a h inspired ifie hie nt at to turn to hill liv by unanimous coll colesent sent ns tile the lender of nf ill the young nung nation att 1 tt k henry testified that this silt ant lit member uns as tin tile greatest gion test man in it im iiii a which lord chat hain declared never iipp r had its superior in ili history As lie went to the lie front lie ho met a miller oil a lathered horse horde bearing alic 1 e I 1 birtil of if bunker did ae fig ll slit lit all lie to in linow yih yes then tit tin of 0 tit country tire safe although it is sald that anit neer in his big lift life rend hut but one book bonk on oil the lie art of inar r in knew that if tile the people would only stand lind up tip to the king kinds s regular reKi ilari HK uld lose loe every battle and still defant nil an eneany who bo was nilles miles froidl ills linso base tin tho ri ens not won by the sword of washington hut but by ills his in character it wits MIS ills his chat nilor slowly built up fly by poverty and struggle which holcli hai riven given him froni the start the lerler ship over inen alho tallied more yes ius all and who m knew tho TI invincible fortitude fortl tulo of a her deally in ailin overthrew the klays briny tid id navy tin hla his lle l ins the unconquerable spirit of the lie hunted hungering shivering ragged ed continentals Continent als of valley forge from the british crown mi empire greater than all III the e conquests made by napoleons gran grand iny at the int ns the lie americans iho nisi v itt hurdles to independence tile british re doubts nt at yorktown washington li only rile work Is dine md and well done bring rile me my horv hirv the aar ir an rs over orr lint but the noblest victory top N MIS ns yet at to comp blavin I ren L V sa j 4 A A george washington calel celel the sword of corti corn ills washington ills his own unstained by personal person nl to the people who lind had entrusted anti listed it tn him and went buck back to his big florin fiorin from froin which li lie he wits was billini to become the first president of the republic no president hns has been more moie aly atul than the first ills cathl net until acu erson ill of stute resigned sinned re and his axt nit tary enry kd FI ilund bilisoly I 1 be tri l low liim ills vie lolin john him tin nn old mutton hand who clio lind not been found wit out only be vu nisi lie he kept hs hn shut trow horous in ili private frien Will and n in ili public life value ji blin becenti lct lu e lie re i la fiill to anice the sido side of revolutionary frame 10 WO persons in the streets of alel pit binl t lien tile the capital threatened to drag washington out of his liou lionso io john adams tells us not it li ng tit ohp outbursts of tio tic retained the conal denea of the hc to tn the lie last when ahr at the of his gu bessor followed the hp retiring prest dent into the street anil left the new pre president ident nil all but deserted the long task of the homesick home exile from mount Vl venitia errion wits done 1920 kr by jie morna |