Author: Society of Friends of the United States of America
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Homage to George Washington
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Homage to George Washington, Builder of the American Nation
Author: Society of Friends of the United States of America (Bucharest, Romania)
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Pages : 32
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George Washington
Author: United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission
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Pages : 36
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Pages : 36
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George Washington, the Builder of the Nation
Author: United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission
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Pages : 27
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George Washington America's Bulletproof Hero!
Author: Michelle White
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 161777586X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
George Washington: America's Bulletproof Hero! is a little-known but true story about George Washington in the Battle at Monongahela River. When other officers were falling all around him in the heat of the battle, George Washington miraculously remained safe. But there was even more to the story when Washington received a visit from the very Indian chief who targeted him. Find out what happened to George Washington: America's Bulletproof Hero!
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 161777586X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
George Washington: America's Bulletproof Hero! is a little-known but true story about George Washington in the Battle at Monongahela River. When other officers were falling all around him in the heat of the battle, George Washington miraculously remained safe. But there was even more to the story when Washington received a visit from the very Indian chief who targeted him. Find out what happened to George Washington: America's Bulletproof Hero!
The Indian World of George Washington
Author: Colin Gordon Calloway
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190652160
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
The Indian World of George Washington offers a fresh portrait of the most revered American and the Native Americans whose story has been only partially told.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190652160
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
The Indian World of George Washington offers a fresh portrait of the most revered American and the Native Americans whose story has been only partially told.
George Washington
Author: Tracie Egan
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 9780823941117
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A biography of the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and first president of the United States, George Washington.
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 9780823941117
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A biography of the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and first president of the United States, George Washington.
George Washington's Mount Vernon
Author: Robert F. Dalzell Jr.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199761051
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
George Washington's Mount Vernon brings together--for the first time--the details of Washington's 45-year endeavor to build and perfect Mount Vernon. In doing so it introduces us to a Washington few of his contemporaries knew, and one little noticed by historians since. Here we meet the planter/patriot who also genuinely loved building, a man passionately human in his desire to impress on his physical surroundings the stamp of his character and personal beliefs. As chief architect and planner of the countless changes made at Mount Vernon over the years, Washington began by imitating accepted models of fashionable taste, but as time passed he increasingly followed his own ideas. Hence, architecturally, as the authors show, Mount Vernon blends the orthodox and the innovative in surprising ways, just as the new American nation would. Equally interesting is the light the book sheds on the process of building at Mount Vernon, and on the people--slave and free--who did the work. Washington was a demanding master, and in their determination to preserve their own independence his workers often clashed with him. Yet, as the Dalzells argue, that experience played a vital role in shaping his hopes for the future of American society--hope that embraced in full measure the promise of the revolution in which he had led his fellow citizens. George Washington's Mount Vernon thus compellingly combines the two sides of Washington's life--the public and the private--and uses the combination to enrich our understanding of both. Gracefully written, with more than 80 photographs, maps, and engravings, the book tells a fascinating story with memorable insight.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199761051
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
George Washington's Mount Vernon brings together--for the first time--the details of Washington's 45-year endeavor to build and perfect Mount Vernon. In doing so it introduces us to a Washington few of his contemporaries knew, and one little noticed by historians since. Here we meet the planter/patriot who also genuinely loved building, a man passionately human in his desire to impress on his physical surroundings the stamp of his character and personal beliefs. As chief architect and planner of the countless changes made at Mount Vernon over the years, Washington began by imitating accepted models of fashionable taste, but as time passed he increasingly followed his own ideas. Hence, architecturally, as the authors show, Mount Vernon blends the orthodox and the innovative in surprising ways, just as the new American nation would. Equally interesting is the light the book sheds on the process of building at Mount Vernon, and on the people--slave and free--who did the work. Washington was a demanding master, and in their determination to preserve their own independence his workers often clashed with him. Yet, as the Dalzells argue, that experience played a vital role in shaping his hopes for the future of American society--hope that embraced in full measure the promise of the revolution in which he had led his fellow citizens. George Washington's Mount Vernon thus compellingly combines the two sides of Washington's life--the public and the private--and uses the combination to enrich our understanding of both. Gracefully written, with more than 80 photographs, maps, and engravings, the book tells a fascinating story with memorable insight.
To the Immortal Name and Memory of George Washington
Author: Louis Torres
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781907521287
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The Washington Monument is one of the most easily recognized structures in America, if not the world, yet the long and tortuous history of its construction is much less well known. Beginning with its sponsorship by the Washington National Monument Society and the grudging support of a largely indifferent Congress, the Monument's 1848 groundbreaking led only to a truncated obelisk, beset by attacks by the Know Nothing Party and lack of secured funding and, from the mid-1850s, to a twenty-year interregnum. It was only 1n 1876 that a Joint Commission of Congress revived the Monument and entrusted its completion to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.In "To the Immortal Name and Memory of George Washington": The United States Corps of Engineers and the Construction of the Washington Monument, historian Louis Torres tells the fascinating story of the Monument, with a particular focus on the efforts of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Lincoln Casey, Captain George W. Davis, and civilian Corps employee Bernard Richardson Green and the details of how they completed the construction of this great American landmark. The book also includes a discussion and images of the various designs, some of them incredibly elaborate compared to the austere simplicity of the original, and an account of Corps stewardship of the Monument up to its takeover by the National Park Service in 1933. First published in 1985. 148 pages, ill.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781907521287
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The Washington Monument is one of the most easily recognized structures in America, if not the world, yet the long and tortuous history of its construction is much less well known. Beginning with its sponsorship by the Washington National Monument Society and the grudging support of a largely indifferent Congress, the Monument's 1848 groundbreaking led only to a truncated obelisk, beset by attacks by the Know Nothing Party and lack of secured funding and, from the mid-1850s, to a twenty-year interregnum. It was only 1n 1876 that a Joint Commission of Congress revived the Monument and entrusted its completion to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.In "To the Immortal Name and Memory of George Washington": The United States Corps of Engineers and the Construction of the Washington Monument, historian Louis Torres tells the fascinating story of the Monument, with a particular focus on the efforts of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Lincoln Casey, Captain George W. Davis, and civilian Corps employee Bernard Richardson Green and the details of how they completed the construction of this great American landmark. The book also includes a discussion and images of the various designs, some of them incredibly elaborate compared to the austere simplicity of the original, and an account of Corps stewardship of the Monument up to its takeover by the National Park Service in 1933. First published in 1985. 148 pages, ill.
George Washington & the Founding of a Nation
Author: Albert Marrin
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
ISBN: 9780525470687
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A highly readable & fast-paced account of the life and times of George Washington.
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
ISBN: 9780525470687
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A highly readable & fast-paced account of the life and times of George Washington.