GEORGE WASHINGTON

George Washington grew up in a plantation worked by enslaved African Americans. He went to school for just seven or eight years in which his favorite subject was arithmetic. He learned to ride horses, fish, hunt and boat. All this skills helped him later on during war. At the age of fifteen he got to see pretty much the whole country by apprenticing to surveyors. When George Washington was twenty he became part of the Virginia militia. There he learned that working as a non-British- born officer would offer him less pay even thought they had the same rank. He still carried the British flag to the battle known as the French and Indian War  against  the French and Native Americans.
       He went to British missions three different times to try to take Fort Duquesne. In the three missions he was defeated. In the first one they did not reach their destination, and created 60 miles away from it  Fort Necessity. Later it was surrendered against French troops.Washington was allowed to go back to Virginia where he was told that all colonial officers had to drop a rank, but he resigned. General Edward Braddock went with him on the second mission but the consequences of the results were worst. The French defeated the British troops and Braddock was shot dead. In 1758 the troops set out again to take Fort Duquesne, and after being hurt throughout, later that year they found it burned to the ground by the retreating French.
        After all this, Washington gave up his commission and went back to his house in Mount Vernon. He was asked to come back twice, once unpaid as advisor and another time. He stayed home until the end of the war in 1763. After all this years in the field, he learned the important lesson that the British could be beaten. In 1758 Washington was elected to the House of Burgesses. He served 15 years in all.  In 1759 Gorge Washington married  Martha Custis. Their  wedding and reception took place on Martha's plantation, called the White House.They were happy for many years until war came again.
 George Washington was elected for the First and Second Continental Congress. He was also named the Commander in Chief of the armed forces. Also he was the most experienced officer of the Continental Army, which was because all the wars he had fight with the British. George Washington finally becames the first president of the United States of America.