George Washington

<p>Fierce debate among early political factions led to many allegations of misdeeds and abuse of power in Washington's administration, but there was no serious misconduct.</p>

<p>Our first president spoke about abolishing slavery, but couldn’t manage without the unpaid labor of hundreds of people at Mount Vernon.</p>

<p>The World Trade Center attack wasn’t the first time New York was brutally assaulted — 225 years before, George Washington watched the city burn from his headquarters in northern Manhattan after painful military defeats.</p>

<p>From ancestral homes of George Washington to World War II runways, there are many sites in the U.K. where you can encounter American's past.</p>

<p>The president worried that his grandson had “an unconquerable indolence of temper, and a dereliction, in fact, to all study.”</p>

<p>John Glover and the men of Marblehead saved the Continental Army several times, and then helped it cross the Delaware to victory at Trenton and Princeton.</p>