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Title: George Washington

Author: Calista McCabe Courtenay

Release Date: June 29, 2007 [EBook #21972]

Language: English

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"MAKERS OF AMERICAN HISTORY" SERIES

GEORGE
WASHINGTON

By CALISTA McCABE COURTENAY

ILLUSTRATED BY

A. M. TURNER

AND

HARRIET KAUCHER

[Illustration: George Washington]

Copyright, 1917, by
SAM'L GABRIEL SONS & COMPANY
NEW YORK

CONTENTS

PAGE
CHAPTER I 5

Washington's Early Life--Appointed as Surveyor--First
Trip into the Wilderness--Entrusted with Message
to the French.

CHAPTER II 20

Washington Appointed a Member of Gen. Braddock's
Staff--French and Indian War--Washington Made
Commander of Virginia Forces--Causes of the American
Revolution--Washington a Member of the First Continental
Congress.

CHAPTER III 30

Beginning of the Revolution--Washington
Made Commander-in-Chief
of the Continental
Army--British Forced
to Leave Boston.

CHAPTER IV 40

Declaration of Independence
Signed--Battle
of Long Island--Battle
of White Plains--Washington
Crosses the Delaware
and Surprises the
Hessians at Trenton.

CHAPTER V 52

Recapture of Fort Ticonderoga
by Gen. Burgoyne--Battle
of Brandywine--Battle
of Germantown--Burgoyne's
Surrender
at Saratoga--Washington
at Valley Forge--Alliance with France.

CHAPTER VI 62

Battle of Monmouth--Patriots Receive Aid from France--Recapture
of Fort at Stony Point by Gen. Anthony
Wayne--Washington at Morristown--S