A mural at George Washington High School in San Francisco depicts the future founding father on the battlefield during the French and Indian War, including the Jumonville incident at top left.

On April 26, 1777, during the Revolutionary War, a large British raiding party ... It seemed like a huge loss for the American forces under Gen. George Washington, who had been leading the battle ...

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

has two simple marble sarcophagi -- one is George Washington's, the other Martha's. Americans came to pay their respects throughout the early 1800s. When the Civil War started, they kept coming ...

During the Revolutionary War ... Washington to accept the office. Citizens across the colonies as well as former comrades in arms insisted that only he could forge a nation. Washington won the ...

A descendant of John Ball, the medieval English preacher who led the first popular rebellion in England, George ... Washington became commander of the Virginia Regiment in the French and Indian ...

Library of Congress Although there was no way George Washington ... And while zealous students of the Civil War might contest the claim, the movement that Washington found himself heading was ...

"First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.” That famous description of George Washington by his friend and fellow patriot Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee is ...

Famous for leading the ill-fated "Pickett's Charge" at Gettysburg, George Pickett ... the Mexican-American War and on the frontier, along the Texas border and in Washington Territory.

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) BRISTOL TOWNSHIP >> In honor of George Washington ... a decorated Vietnam War combat pilot and former ...