George_Washington

George Washington George Washington inspired a young nation to defeat the greatest power in the world at that time. He also helped make many of the laws and set up the law making systems that we still have today. Washington had many contributions to America and I will discuss the contributions that he made. In 1774, Washington was one of seven delegates from Virginia to go to the First Continental Congress. Along with 54 other delegates, Washington wrote the “Declaration of Rights and Grievances.” The declaration was sent to King George III of England, hoping to prevent a war. In 1775, the Second Continental Congress was called together and decided to go to war to fight for independence. On June 15, Washington was elected to be Commander and Chief of the colonial forces. Washington took command of troops surrounding Boston. Even with no uniforms and insufficient weapons the colonials managed to retake Boston. The next few months he trained his 14,000 untrained men. After training, Washington moved his troops to New York, but was defeated by William Howe. On Christmas night 1776, Washington crossed the Delaware River for a surprise attack in the morning at Trenton, New Jersey, which was captured. Washington was mostly washington, war, took, new, treaty, seven, president, nation, government, george, french, first, england, elected, contributions, congress, britain, america, withdrawal, virginia, troops, trading, told, time, system, states, spain, set, second, public, posts, one, needed, mostly, men, man, making, laws, jay’s, indians, house, go, even, delegates, defeated, declaration, debts, continental, constitution, chose, british