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Title: George Washington, Vol. I

Author: Henry Cabot Lodge

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[Illustration: Frontispiece]

American Statesmen

STANDARD LIBRARY EDITION

[Illustration: _The Home of the Washington Family_]

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GEORGE WASHINGTON

BY

HENRY CABOT LODGE

IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. I.

1889

PREFACE

This edition has been carefully revised, and although very little has
been added of late years to our knowledge of the facts of Washington's
life, I have tried to examine all that has appeared. The researches of
Mr. Waters, which were published just after these volumes in the first
edition had passed through the press, enable me to give the Washington
pedigree with certainty, and have turned conjecture into fact. The
recent publication in full of Lear's memoranda, although they tell
nothing new about Washington's last moments, help toward a completion
of all the details of the scene.

H.C. LODGE.

WASHINGTON, February 7, 1898.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER.

INTRODUCTION
I. THE OLD DOMINION
II. THE WASHINGTONS
III. ON THE FRONTIER
IV. LOVE AND MARRIAGE
V. TAKING COMMAND
VI. SAVING THE REVOLUTION
VII. "MALICE DOMESTIC, AND FOREIGN LEVY"
VIII. THE ALLIES
IX. ARNOLD'S TREASON, AND THE WAR IN THE SOUTH
X. YORKTOWN
XI. PEACE

INDEX

ILLUSTRATIONS

GEORGE WASHINGTON

From the painting by Gilbert Stuart in the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston. This painting is owned by the Boston Athenaeum and is known as
the Athenaeum portrait.

Autograph is from Washington's signature to a bill of exchange, from
"Talks about Autographs" by George Birkbeck Hill.

The vignette of the residence of the Washington family is from "Homes
of American Statesman," published by Alfred W. Putnam, N