George was only 11 years old when his father died. Upon his father’s death, the plantation and all its holdings were left to George’s older half-brothers, Lawrence and Augustine. Although George ...

Citizens across the colonies as well as former comrades in arms insisted that only he could forge a nation. Washington won the presidency by unanimous electoral vote in both 1788 and in 1792.

Photograph by Bridgeman/ACI When George was just 11, Augustine died ... Resigning his commission, he enthusiastically took up the life of a Virginia planter. Washington had been renting a family ...

Less than a year after Nelly's wedding, the death of George Washington had a tremendous effect on the personal lives of virtually every slave at Mount Vernon. He died on 14 December 1799 after a ...

He died due to compression ... This is pain right here' - Washington DC protests turn violent A video showing a white police officer continuing to kneel on George Floyd's neck even after he ...

George Washington operated a whiskey distillery ... But Washington’s distillery success proved short-lived: He died that December, less than three years after he left office.

He died seven months after his wife, Barbara. The making of a president Obituary: George HW Bush Reaction ... Trump will be attending the funeral in Washington, the White House said, and Wednesday ...

He used his savings to establish the George Washington Carver Museum ... Foundation at Tuskegee for research in agriculture. Carver died on 5 January 1943 in Tuskegee at the age of 78.