A timeline of the life of George Washington /doi:http://lccn.loc.gov/2003013936Vladimir Katz
George Washington - Plantation, Marriage, Revolutionary: Immediately on resigning his commission, Washington was married (January 6, 1759) to Martha Dandridge, the widow of Daniel Parke Custis. She was a few months older than he, was the mother of two ch
George Washington Greatest Challenges In 1783, with the signing of theTreaty of Parisbetween Great Britain and the U.S., Washington, believing he had done his duty, gave up his command of the army and returned to Mount Vernon, intent on resuming his life as a gentleman farmer and family ...
George Washington Bush was known as agenerous pioneerwho provided a good place to stop near the end of the Trail.Many of the travelers were on their way to the two smaller settlements founded further northward - Seattle in 1851 and Tacoma in 1852.From 1846 to 1863 Mr. Bush welcomed exhaust...
Gilbert Stuart, American painter who was one of the great portrait painters of his era and the creator of a distinctively American portrait style. He was especially known for an unfinished painting of George Washington. Learn more about Stuart’s life an
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George W. Bush: National Prayer BreakfastU.S. Pres. George W. Bush (left) and U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (centre) listening to Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, address the National Prayer Breakfast, Washington, D.C., 2004.(more) In December 2001 ...
George Dewey(born December 26, 1837,Montpelier,Vermont, U.S.—died January 16, 1917, Washington, D.C.) was a U.S. naval commander who defeated the Spanishfleetat theBattle of Manila Bayduring theSpanish-American War(1898). A graduate of theU.S. Naval Academyat Annapolis, Maryland, in...
“the organizer of victory” from the wartime Britishprime minister,Winston Churchill. As a representative of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff at the international conferences inCasablanca, Morocco, in Washington,D.C., inQuebec, in Cairo, and inTehrān, Marshall led the fight for an Allied ...