The Sarah Riggs Humphreys-Mary Silliman Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) reminds ...

The Congress acted as a makeshift central government, creating the Continental Army, electing George Washington as its commander and issuing paper currency. It asked each colony to provide ...

George Washington prepared to respond militarily, a call for spiritual assistance was also issued: The Continental ... When Congress issued the call for prayer and fasting, it invoked the name ...

Though they worked in close proximity for years, Alexander Hamilton and George ... York's provincial congress. He may have first attracted the attention of Continental Army Commander Washington ...

That famous description of George ... of a decade, Washington had become a full-throated patriot and one of Virginia’s seven elected delegates to the First Continental Congress.