Question

Who was George Washington? .

Answer 1

GEORGE WASHINGTON  WAS THE SECOND PRESIDENT OF UNITED ESTATES

Answer 2

George Washington First President of the United States Nothing can merit our patronage more than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. George Washington He was born on February 22, 1732, in a wealthy family of English origin, established in America since the mid - XVII in Wakefield, Westmoreland, Virginia. He was the son of the second marriage of his father with Mary Ball, of bourgeois family. Orphan at a young age, was sheltered by his brother Lawrence and received elementary education.     From the age of 14 he showed interest in the arms race. He studied in rural schools. As a child he also shone because of his great sports fans. Serious, introverted and methodical, he stood out for his determined spirit. He was an official inspector of Culpeper County since 1749. In 1753 he was an assistant to the Southern District of Virginia. It was commissioned by the lieutenant governor of Virginia to transmit the ultimatum to the French troops to cease their incursions into the Ohio River Valley. Later he commanded the protection to the workers who raised a fort in the horcajos of the Ohio river. When the French expelled the workers and rename the place as Fort Duquesne, he entrenched himself with his men at Fort Necessity. A French assault forced him to accept the conditions of surrender and had to leave with what was left of his company.In May 1755 he enlisted to serve as field help from British General Edward Braddock. In August 1755 he was elected to command the Virginia regiment. After the death of his older stepbrother Lawrence, he inherited the Mount Vernon family plantation. He married in 1759 with a widow who owns a large lot called Martha Custis, although his great love was Sally Cary, an idealist woman, permanently at his side in the cause for Independence. He could not love her publicly because he was married to his friend George Fairax. He was elected a member of the Virginia lower house in 1758, where he served for 17 years, also served as a Fairfax County Justice of the Peace. In July 1774 he presided over a meeting in Alexandria that adopted the 'Fairfax Resolutions', which established a blockade of British imports. In 1775, Congress appointed him commander in chief of the newly created Continental Army, hoping thereby to lure Virginia into the New England-initiated struggle against Britain. After expelling the British from Boston, he advanced to New York, where he was defeated in August 1776 by General William Howe. Washington crossed the Delaware River on the night of December 25, 1776 and took Trenton. The 3 of January of 1777 defeated the British troops in the battle of Princeton. He tried unsuccessfully to block Howe's advance toward Philadelphia at the Battle of Brandywine Creek. When the city is occupied by the British, it fought a battle in Germantown, but the superiority of the enemy forced him to retire. He and his men spent the next winter in Valley Forge. He spent two years with his army camped around New York. In 1780 French troops arrived under the command of the count of Rochambeau and together they displaced 7,000 men, from the state of New York to Virginia in less than five weeks. The Franco-American joint army joined La Fayette, and 36 French ships deployed on the coast to prevent Yorktown from receiving aid by sea. Washington forced Cornwallis to surrender in October after a brief siege.