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George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 in Westmoreland County, Virginia. He was the eldest of six children by Augustine Washington and his second wife Mary Ball. The majority of Washington?s education came from his father and after his death when George was 11 years of age in 1743, his elder half-brother Lawrence. Young George quickly learned the trade of surveying and at the age of 16 in 1748 he joined a surveying party sent out to the Shenandoah Valley by Lord Fairfax, a land baron. For the next several years Washington would continue surveying in Virginia and West Virginia where he acquired a life-long interest in the west. In 1753 he began his career in the military when the royal governor appointed him to an adjutantship in the militia, as a major. The next year he became lieutenant colonel and then colonel in the militia. He also resigned that same year agitated by the dilution of his rank due to the pending arrival of British regulars. He would reenter the military in 1755 with the courtesy title of colonel. After bravely escaping death in the Battle of Monongahela he was awarded command of the Virginia military forces and charged with defending the colony?s frontier. Due to a shortage in equipment and soldiers this was quite an arduous task. Angered by governmental neglect of the militia and aggravated by not rising in rank he again resigned in late 1758 or early 1759. Washington then married Martha Dandridge Custis a wealthy widow and mother of two children... [to view the full essay now, purchase below]

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