George Washington

He was born in 1732 in Virginia, with a planter family, learning morals, manners, and his entire knowledge requisite for being a gentleman. He had two main interests: military and plantations.  At 16 he helped survey lands for Lord Fairfax, a neighbor in the Shenandoah Valley, when his brother Lawrence died he needed to take care of Lawrence’s plantations in Mount Vernon so he took the responsibility and became the owner of the plantation. Commissioned a lieutenant colonel in 1754, he fought for the first time of what it grew into the French and Indian War.  1759 to the outbreak’s of the American Revolution, Washington managed his lands in Mount Vernon and served in the Virginia House of Burgesses. He married Martha Curtis a widow with two children, he referred  himself to a busy and happy life he enjoyed fox hunting, playing cards, fishing, and dancing. His influence in being in the British Army and being part of his local government make him helped him to form ideas of what the colonies needed, he didn’t want to fight but he believed that sometimes you have to fight for what you believe. When the Second Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia in May 1775, Washington was elected as General of the Continental Army. Soon people started to divide in groups the Patriots that were the ones that think they should get rid of the British and the Loyalist that they thought they should be loyal to the King and believe that he was the only one that could make decisions with the things on the colonists, Washington sided with the Patriots because he believed that he his country would be better by making their own decisions. On July 3, 1775, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, he took command of  troops that had no experience