George Washington served as the first president of the United States from age 57 in 1789 to age 65 in 1797, but before that, he was known for his military leadership during the French and Indian ...

From there, George Washington’s teeth got even worse ... widen the bars on the sides,” Washington wrote to Greenwood in 1797. “They are already too wide, and too projecting for the parts ...

John Adams signed the Sedition Act in an attempt to silence dissent. Some other Founding Fathers thought that muzzling the press would mean the end of the republic.

Though they worked in close proximity for years, Alexander Hamilton and George Washington ... over the 1797 public disclosure of Hamilton's affair with Maria Reynolds, Washington sent his ...

George Washington was the son of Augustine Washington (1694-1743) and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington (1708-1789). The Washington family moved to Ferry Farm Plantation in 1738. Located on the ...

George Washington, who led America through the Revolution ... But when he retired to Mount Vernon in 1797, the United States was already on the road to self-sufficiency, with a functional monetary ...