General Washington
Gen. George Washington
Born on February 22 in 1732. George Washington was a Virginian colonist who's father died when George was eleven. He used his father's surveying tools to measure and map a forest, and a turnip field. George Washington used this skill to get a job surveying land as a teenager, and into his adulthood. In 1753, when he was twenty-one, he joined the Virginia army. In 1754, the French and Indian War began and George Washington led soldiers against the French. George was then known as a brave and good leader throughout the thirteen American colonies. When George was twenty-six, he fell in love with Martha Custis. They married and moved to Mount Vernon, the Virginia home and farm that had once belonged to George's brother. In 1775, George Washington was chosen to lead the Continental Army, the American army which fought against the British in the Revolutionary War. In 1783, when the colonists won the war, George Washington was a hero. In 1789, George Washington was elected the first president of the United States of America. He was reelected in 1792. In 1797, after eight years as president, George Washington returned to his home at Mount Vernon. In 1766, George Washington became ill and passed away. He was sixty-seven years old.