click image for close-up After the revolutionary war, the Continental Congress awarded General ... of the Battle of Cowpens recorded in John Marshall's biography of George Washington.

That famous description of George ... summer tested Washington, it was only a small taste of what was to come. By 1776 he and his men were in a struggle for survival, yielding battle after battle ...

George Washington was the son of Augustine Washington (1694-1743 ... From 1790 to 1800, about 10 percent of all American households relocated. Near Toledo, Ohio, Washington sent federal troops to ...

In 1776, as George ... his death at the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775. The following year, Abigail Adams inoculated herself and her children against the disease. The Death of General Warren ...

Though they worked in close proximity for years, Alexander Hamilton and George ... aide and the General, twice his age, whom Hamilton always addressed as "Your Excellency." Washington was prudent ...