George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 in Westmoreland county Virginia. His father, Augustine (Gus), even let him ride his pony to school without a servant going with him. He always wanted to be a British officer or to be in the British navy, but his mother would not let him. One day he found his grandfather's old surveying tools. He then decided to become a surveyor to earn some money. By age sixteen he was part of a surveying expedition, and at age seventeen he was a professional surveyor .He later became the official surveyor in Culpepper County .His half brother Lawrence married Anne Fairfax who lived in Bellvoir with her father Colonel Fairfax. Lawrence died when George was 20 years old, and George then owned Mt Vernon. He took fencing lessons and read books to be " quick with the sword and quick with the mind."

When George Washington was younger he studied the British's military strategy not knowing that later that would help him in the Revolutionary War. He noticed the British would walk in lines with bright red coats on just waiting to be ambushed. George became such a good frontiersman that the governor of Virginia asked him to walk over 1,000 miles to a French fort to ask them to abandon the fort because it was on British territory. George went and asked, but they would not leave. So the British attacked the French fort lead by General Braddock. The French ambushed them with a group of Indians, and Braddock was shot in the lungs by a bullet. George started leading the troops and retreated and later said he had four bullets in his coat and two horses shot from under him, but he was still not hurl. George became the commander of the Virginia militia, and he and a group of British men attached the fort and the French surrendered it

He was voted for the legislature in Williamsburg, Virginia. In 1773 the Boston Tea party occurred where some angry patriots dressed up as Indians and threw all of the tea off some British ships including the Beaver. When King George III heard about it he closed down the port and hired mercenaries, the evil Hessians! In the summer of 1774 George and 55 other colonial representatives met and after many heated arguments they decided to boycott trade with Great Britain. All 56 of them knew that if their plan failed they all would be arrested and executed. Everyone decided that George should lead the Continental Army. When George met his men he found that he had only 16,000 men that wanted to go home and be with their families. They had few guns and weapons and only a couple cannons. In New York a gigantic fleet of ships came to attack that held over 34,000 Redcoats! The patriots melted a statue of King George III to make bullets, but it only made 42,08. When they were about to face them George Washington said, "If I see any man turn his back today I will shoot him through. I have two pistols loaded, but I will not ask any man to go farther than I do. I will fight so long as I have a leg or an arm." In one winter the Hessians were staying in Trenton, New Jersey so on Christmas Eve he led 2,500 men across the Delaware River and surprise attacked the Hessians. On July 4 1776 the Declaration of Independence was signed (even though 1/3 of the Americans were Tories or loyal to the king) without George Washington. George was elected President of the Constitutional Convention. Out of 11,000 men in Valley Forge, 3,000 froze to death or died of starvation. He retired from the army on December 19,1783. He was elected the first President of the United States of America under our current Constitution.

His inauguration was on April 30, 1789. People asked what to call him, and he said. "Just call me Mr. President." He decided he would only serve two terms so that it would not be like a monarchy. He published his farewell address in 1796. His only ceremony at the White House was a 16-gun salute, one for each state in the Union on March 14, 1797.