Biographical Memoirs of the Illustrious General George Washington, Late President of the United States of America, and Commander in Chief of Their Armies, During the Revolutionary War (Classic Reprint - Hardcover

John Corry

9780483148024: Biographical Memoirs of the Illustrious General George Washington, Late President of the United States of America, and Commander in Chief of Their Armies, During the Revolutionary War (Classic Reprint

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Excerpt from Biographical Memoirs of the Illustrious General George Washington, Late President of the United States of America, and Commander in Chief of Their Armies, During the Revolutionary War

In the l0th year of his age, he had the misforu tune to lofe an excellent father, who died in 1742, and the patrimonial efiate devolved to an elder. Brothen - This young gentleman had been an oficer, in the Colonial tr00ps fent in the expediu tion againfi Carthagena. Ou his return he call ed the family manfion Mountvernon, in honour of the Britiih Admiral, and defiined his brother George to ferve in the navy.

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