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=George Washington =

George Washington
George Washington was the first U.S. president. He was in the French and Indian war. George Washington was a patriot. On April 30, 1789, George Washington was standing on the very edge of the federal hall in New York, on Wall Street. George Washington was born in Virginia in 1732. He was born into a planter family. Washington was one of the delegates from Virginia. He was chosen the chief of the continental army. He was sixteen when he had is job as a surveyor for the lord Fairfax and earned a big salary of money that was $7.20 for each day. When he was the age of 23 he led the Virginia military in the French and Indian war in 1755-1760. He retired to Mt. Vernon in 1797 after the public service of almost 25 years and he died there on December 14, 1799.

The American Revolution
George Washington was in the war and was in the House of Burgesses. He was married to Martha Washington, he had a busy and happy life. He felt himself exploited from the British merchants and hampered by the British regulations.George Washington was a general for the Continental army and Fredrick Von Stuebenwas a general was too!

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 * 1) "George Washington: Family Tree | George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate, Museum & Gardens." George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate, Museum & Gardens. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Nov. 2012. .
 * 2) United States. Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt Brace & Co., 2000. Print.
 * 3) George Washington: Surveyor and Mapmaker." American Memory from the Library of Congress - Home Page. N.p., n.d. Web. 6 Dec. 2012. <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml