The Life of George Washington, Volume 1Author Washington Irving believed this, his monumental biography of America's first great military hero and president, to be his finest literary achievement. Indeed, it is a masterful work, a superlative life of George Washington, and stood as a definitive text long after its 1860 publication.Volume I opens with a genealogy of the Washington family, tracing its roots back to the time of the Norman Conquest, and explores the future general's education as a boy, his service in the French and Indian conflicts, and his participation in the early rumblings of revolution in the British colonies in America.WASHINGTON IRVING (1783-1859) was born in New York City to Scottish immigrant parents. Considered by some the "Father of American Literature," Irving is best known for his short stories, including "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle," but he also produced an extensive bibliography of essays, poems, travel books, and biographies. |
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... appointed District Ad jutant - General - Mount Vernon a School of Arms - Adjutant Muse a veteran Campaigner - Jacob Van Braam a Master of Fence - Ill health of Washington's brother Lawrence -- Voyage with him to the West Indies - Scenes ...
... appointed District Ad jutant - General - Mount Vernon a School of Arms - Adjutant Muse a veteran Campaigner - Jacob Van Braam a Master of Fence - Ill health of Washington's brother Lawrence -- Voyage with him to the West Indies - Scenes ...
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... Appointed a Delegate to the Gen- eral Congress - Letter from Bryan Fairfax - Perplexities of Gen- eral Gage at Boston . CHAPTER XXXV . . 253 Meeting of the First Congress - Opening Ceremonies - Eloquence of Patrick Henry and Henry Lee ...
... Appointed a Delegate to the Gen- eral Congress - Letter from Bryan Fairfax - Perplexities of Gen- eral Gage at Boston . CHAPTER XXXV . . 253 Meeting of the First Congress - Opening Ceremonies - Eloquence of Patrick Henry and Henry Lee ...
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... appointed by the crown , a safer depositary of such power than an hered- itary noble . Having placed a noble and learned native of Loraine in the diocese , therefore , he erected it into a palatinate , over which the bishop , as Count ...
... appointed by the crown , a safer depositary of such power than an hered- itary noble . Having placed a noble and learned native of Loraine in the diocese , therefore , he erected it into a palatinate , over which the bishop , as Count ...
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... appointed District Adjutant General - Mount Vernon a School of Arms - Adjutant Muse a vet- eran Campaigner - Jacob Van Braam the Master of Fence - Ill health of Washington's brother Lawrence - Voyage with him to the West Indies - Scenes ...
... appointed District Adjutant General - Mount Vernon a School of Arms - Adjutant Muse a vet- eran Campaigner - Jacob Van Braam the Master of Fence - Ill health of Washington's brother Lawrence - Voyage with him to the West Indies - Scenes ...
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... appointed one of the executors of the will ; but such was the implicit confidence reposed in his judgment and integrity , that , although he was but twenty years of age , the management of the affairs of the deceased was soon devolved ...
... appointed one of the executors of the will ; but such was the implicit confidence reposed in his judgment and integrity , that , although he was but twenty years of age , the management of the affairs of the deceased was soon devolved ...
Contents
CHAPTER XXVIII | 223 |
CHAPTER XXIX | 229 |
Hood at BostonThe General Court Refuses to do Business under | 235 |
CHAPTER XXXII | 244 |
CHAPTER XXXIV | 253 |
CHAPTER XXXV | 259 |
CHAPTER XXXVI | 267 |
CHAPTER XXXVII | 278 |
CHAPTER XII | 91 |
CHAPTER XIII | 101 |
CHAPTER XIV | 107 |
CHAPTER XV | 117 |
CHAPTER XVI | 125 |
CHAPTER XVII | 140 |
CHAPTER XIX | 153 |
CHAPTER XXI | 166 |
Washington Vindicates his Conduct to Lord LoudounHis Recep | 171 |
CHAPTER XXIII | 177 |
CHAPTER XXIV | 185 |
CHAPTER XXV | 194 |
CHAPTER XXVI | 206 |
CHAPTER XXVII | 216 |
CHAPTER XXXVIII | 286 |
CHAPTER XL | 297 |
CHAPTER XLI | 305 |
CHAPTER XLII | 313 |
CHAPTER XLIII | 322 |
CHAPTER XLIV | 330 |
CHAPTER XLV | 337 |
CHAPTER XLVI | 343 |
CHAPTER XLVII | 355 |
CHAPTER XLVIII | 367 |
Measures of General Howe Desecration of Churches Three | 374 |
CHAPTER LI | 386 |
CHAPTER LIII | 396 |
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Page 262 - Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me : Fight against them that fight against me.
Page 208 - I am now, I believe, fixed in this seat, with an agreeable partner for life, and I hope to find more happiness in retirement than I ever experienced in the wide and bustling world.
Page 147 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.
Page 220 - Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born.
Page 119 - Niagara; and having taken that, to Frontenac, if the season will allow time; and I suppose it will, for Duquesne can hardly detain me above three or four days; and then I see nothing that can obstruct my march to Niagara.
Page 77 - As to the summons you send me to retire, I do not think myself obliged to obey it. Whatever may be your instructions, I am here by virtue of the orders of my general; and I entreat you, sir, not to doubt one moment but that I am determined to conform myself to them with all the exactness and resolution which can be expected from the best officer." . . . "I made it my particular care,