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George Washington : the forge of experience, 1732-1775

A biography of America's first President from birth to the beginning of the Revolutionary War, portraying the personal qualities which contributed to his greatness
Print Book, English, [1965]
Little, Brown, Boston, [1965]
Biography
x, 390 pages : illustrations, facsimile, map (on lining papers) portraits ; 25 cm.
9780316285971, 0316285978
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Pt. 1: a self-made man
Birth of a hero
Termagant and brother
A Fairfax world
Surveyor's wages
Death and a beckoning mission
Pt. 2: war in the wilderness
Forest adventure
Triggering the seven years' war
Defeat and perhaps disgrace
In and out of the Army
Nightmare
Commander in Chief of what
Hysteria
Washington turns to the crown
To death's door
Adventures of the heart
Wrong road to victory
Pt. 3: true happiness
Domestic enjoyments
Country squire
Children not his own
British debts versus American markets
Eyes West
Pt. 4: road to revolution
Dragon's teeth
The sucking vortex
A dreadful trust
Pt. 5: appendix
Washington's farewell to his officers, French and Indian War
V. 1, The forge of experience (1732-1775) -- v. 2, In the American Revolution (1775-1783) -- v. 3, And the New Nation (1783-1793) -- v. 4, Anguish and farewell (1793-1799)