Chadds Ford was an ideal place back on Sept. 9, 1777, for Gen. George Washington’s Headquarters as his Continental Army plotted to attack the British ...

Feb. 22, 1732 George Washington is born in a modest house ... most hardscrabble farmers and small-time merchants, holding the British army at bay in Boston. Washington was determined to impose ...

In 1776, as George Washington was leading the Continental Army through some of the earliest battles of the American Revolution, disease posed a greater threat to his forces than British troops.

The British actively recruited slaves ... 5,000 black men served in the Continental Army, and hundreds more served on the sea. Had George Washington been less ambivalent, more blacks might have ...

After successfully driving the British out of Boston, General George Washington had marched his army to New York, hoping to prevent the British from capturing the city. In the invasion ...

Against heavy odds, Washington outmaneuvered British forces to lead the colonists to victory ... Challenges Upon his inauguration as the first president on April 30, 1789, George Washington assumed ...

Though they worked in close proximity for years, Alexander Hamilton and George ... Hamilton, Washington found a brilliant administrator who could help bring order to an unruly army, and later ...