Less than a year after Nelly's wedding, the death of George Washington had a tremendous effect on the personal lives of virtually every slave at Mount Vernon. He died on 14 December 1799 after a ...

YOKOSUKA, Japan (WAVY) — Two Navy sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier USS George Washington died shortly after arriving at the ship’s new homeport in Japan, according to a NavyTimes ...

Located on the Rappahanock River, Washington would spend most of his childhood there. George was only 11 years old when his father died. Upon his father’s death, the plantation and all its holdings ...

Washington won the presidency by unanimous electoral vote in both 1788 and in 1792. Challenges Upon his inauguration as the first president on April 30, 1789, George Washington assumed office under ...

George Washington led his own fight for independence in America. Washington was born on February 22, 1732, in Pope's Creek, Virginia. His father's death in 1744 ended his formal education.

Feb. 22, 1732 George Washington is born in a modest house at ... from the widow of his older half-brother Lawrence, who died in 1752. Following the death of his sister-in-law, Washington ...

YOKOSUKA, Japan (WAVY) — Two Navy sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier USS George Washington died shortly after arriving at the ship’s new homeport in Japan, according to a NavyTimes ...

Two Navy sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier USS George Washington died shortly after arriving at the ship's new homeport in Japan, according to a NavyTimes article published on Dec. 3.

After his death, his childhood home in Diamond, Missouri, was named as the George Washington Carver National Monument, the first time this happened for an African American. Carver was also ...