The First Continental Congress formed in response to the ... creating the Continental Army, electing George Washington as its commander and issuing paper currency. It asked each colony to provide ...

We think of George Washington as being so confident and so perfect. But, when he first got the job to ... little committee—led by lawyer and Continental COngress delegate John Jay—wound ...

Feb. 22, 1732 George Washington is born in a modest house ... and one of Virginia’s seven elected delegates to the First Continental Congress. In August 1774, he left Mount Vernon for ...

On February 4, 1789, the 69 members of the Electoral College made George Washington ... The day after Congress counted the electoral votes, declaring Washington the first president, it dispatched ...

“I feel myself unequal to this business” confessed John Adams, of the “grand scene open before me—a Congress ... George Washington, the future general of the yet-to-be-formed Continental ...

Trump is planning a giant military parade down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., to coincide with his 79th birthday on ...

It was 250 years ago this week that the Second Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia to organize America’s rebellion against the British crown. War had broken out a ...

Sunday marks 250 years since George Washington left Mount ... appointed commander-in-chief of the new Continental Army. It marks the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. “ ...

The First Continental Congress formed in response to the ... creating the Continental Army, electing George Washington as its commander and issuing paper currency. It asked each colony to provide ...