One of the most famous authors of the nineteenth century, the great Washington Irving, was born on April 3, 1783 in New York City. The son of Scottish-English immigrants, Irving’s parents, like many of their fellow Americans, admired the greatest hero of the age, George Washington, and named their youngest child after him. At the tender age of six, Irving got to meet his namesake in New York City, the first capital of the United States and home to President George Washington

After nearly a year filled with some of the most stressful, mentally-exhausting days of his life, a victorious General George Washington finally entered a liberated Boston, Massachusetts on March 18, 1776. One day earlier, nearly 11,000 British troops and around 1,100 Loyalist civilians had crammed into over 120 ships, evacuating Boston and bringing an end to a 332-day siege of the embattled harbor town. It was a major moment of triumph for Bostonians and supporters of the Am

With nothing but a pair of glasses and his matchless prestige, General George Washington prevented a military coup and saved the American Revolution from ruin at a tense meeting with the officers of the Continental Army in the Temple of Virtue, the officers’ assembly hall at the army’s encampment in the Newburgh-New Windsor area of New York on March 15, 1783. The dawning of the year 1783 found the officers of the Continental Army on the verge of revolt against the Confederati

Character, duty, honor, country, trust, and responsibility. Those are six of the most important words that define the life and legacy of George Washington. America’s revolutionary generation knew that the storybook of mankind was replete with examples of ambitious men who took advantage of unique moments in history to seize power for themselves and to never give it up. With the massive popularity and power that he wielded as the commander and chief of the Continental Army dur