George Washington

In his farewell address to the American people, George Washington advised against political parties, foreign conflicts, and sectionalism. He also spoke about the need for national unity, set a precedent for only serving two terms, and his belief that the American people should prioritize national…

General Benjamin Lincoln had served under Washington during the Revolution, and the two men continued to correspond after the war. Both were charter members of The Society of the Cincinnati. Founded at the close of the Revolutionary War by General Henry Knox and other officers of the Continental…

In 1783, Hamilton wrote as a Continental Congressman from New York to General Washington in his capacity as chairman of a committee formed by Congress to organize various departments in the government after the official peace at the end of the Revolution. Hamilton would like Washington's…

<p><span class="deck"> An English Authority Compares British and American Viewpoints</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> Resigning his commission, the military hero joined Congress in acting out a strict protocol to symbolize the supremacy of civil government</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">By studying Braddock’ mistakes, Henry Bouquet outsmarted the Indians who tried the same tricks on him a few years later</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">To secure the old Northwest he waged our first cold war, which came to a climax in the Battle of Fallen Timbers</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Without doubt they were Washington, who walked carefully within the Constitution, and Lincoln, who stretched it as far as he dared</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">In a day of rampant money-making, gentle Peter Cooper was not only a reformer but successful, widely loved, and rich.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> To Falstaff’s question, early America gave an unequivocal answer. Its roadside taverns were the traveler’s refuge and the townsman’s club</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> Or, a dogged attempt to assemble a most remarkable company—the famous survivors of the battle lost by a British general on the Monongahela. Everybody who was anybody was there, from George Washington to Daniel Boone. Everybody, that is, but B. Gratz Brown</span> </p>

<p>The American system of choosing a President has not worked out badly, far as it may be from the Founding Fathers’ vision of a natural aristocracy </p>

<p><span class="deck">The Polish poet stayed twelve days and saw it all—the great gardens, pretty Nellie Custis, the distillery, the toy Bastille, the wretched slave huts, the great man himself denouncing the irritating French</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Neglected for over half a century, Emanuel Leutze’s huge historical canvas hovered near oblivion. Then this magazine helped to rediscover</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Had a tempest not thwarted his plans, George Washington might have lost the Revolution in the first major operation he commanded</span> </span></p>

<p>“Whom can we trust now?” cried out General Washington when he discovered his friend’s “villainous perfidy.”</p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Mortally ill as his century dwindled to its close, Washington was helped to his grave by physicians who clung to typical eighteenth-century remedies. But he died as nobly as he had lived</span> </span></p>

<p>After the Revolution, Washington returned to farming at Mount Vernon but eventually called for that he wished a “Convention of the People” to establish a “Federal Constitution”</p>

<p>President Washington appointed John Jay to be Chief Justice because the eloquent partisan of the Constitution shared a desire to strengthen the machinery of the central government and to bring about conformity to treaty obligations among the states.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> In reprisal for a Tory atrocity, Washington ordered the hanging of a captive British officer chosen by lot. He was nineteen.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A domino theory, distant wilderness warfare, the notion of “defensive enclaves,” hawks, doves, hired mercenaries, possible intervention by hostile powers, a Little trouble telling friendly natives from unfriendly—George</span> III <span class="typestyle"> went through the whole routine</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Defeated at Saratoga, Burgoyne’s troops faced nearly five years of enforced exile in a hostile countryside</span> </p>

<p>The British commander felt the rebels didn't a real army. But letters he addressed to "George Washington, Esq." were returned to sender.</p>

<p>When British dragoons captured this brilliant and ambitious general, it put an end to his ambition to replace Washington as commander-in-chief.</p>

<p>“The damn rebels form well”</p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Second in a series of paintings for</span><br />
AMERICAN HERITAGE </span></p>

<p>Courageous and resourceful, the Marquis was bred for better things than defeat at the hands of rebellious provincials.</p>

<p>Rakehells, men of good will, adventurers, and bunglers were all in the glittering pageant when the Old World came to help out the New</p>

<p>The brothers were expected to perform an almost impossible task, subduing a people of the same flesh and blood and heritage.</p>

<p><span class="deck">WHAT IS THERE TO CELEBRATE?</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The Union desperately needed an extraordinary warship to counter the ironclad the Confederates were building</span> </span></p>

<p>When one of the wealthiest men in the Colonies sided with the Patriot cause, he was called a “wretched and plundered tool of the Boston rebels.”</p>

<p><span class="deck"> Who today remembers John Paulding, Isaac Van Wert, or<br />
David Williams? Yet for a century they were renowned as the<br />
rustic militiamen who captured Major John André</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">In the most famous duel in American history, Aaron Burr is usually seen as the villain, Alexander Hamilton as the noble victim. But was it really that simple?</span></p>

<p>In the snarled disputes in 1790 over the Yazoo land claims (now large parts of Alabama and Mississippi), George Washington and an educated Creek chieftain turned out to be the diplomatic kingpins</p>

<p>It became apparent that this influenza was a first-rate killer.</p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Vain, snobbish, distinctly upper-class in his libertine social habits, Gouverneur Morris nevertheless saw himself justifiably as "A Representative of America"</span></span></p>

<p>Painter to the Federalist aristocracy, Stuart created likenesses of leading citizens with great brilliance and exactitude.</p>