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Washington the General, the President and the AbolitionistOn a cold, frosty day in Westmoreland County, Virginia a baby boy was innate(p) to Augustine Washington and Mary Ball on February 22, 1732. This baby was named George and was their first child of five to come. From the age of three he lived at many different plantations on tributaries of the Potomac river. At the age of 11, George tragically lost his father and was under his mothers management which he did not like. Living with many relatives he in conclusion found a sanctuary at his half-brother Lawrences plantation known as circumstance Vernon. After the age of approximately 15 he began showing a deep interest in mathematics and eventually through Lawrences influence became a successful surveyor. In 1751 Washington do his first and last trip outside the colonies to Barbados with Lawrence to cure him of tuberculosis. When they were there George very quickly contracted smallpox. Although he survived the illness he was left with permanent facial nerve scars and immunity to a disease that will ravage his man in the near future. In 1752, Lawrence, who had served as Washingtons mentor, tragically passed away. Washington eventually inherited Lawrences estate, Mount Vernon, his militia office and there Washington learned how to become an officer and a farmer.In 1753 Virginia Governor Robert Dinwiddie sent 21-year-old Washington to warn French troops stationed north of modern day Pittsburgh Pennsylvania that they were trespassing in territory that was claimed by Virginia. The French ignored the warning, and the flopped. On the brighter side, when Washington returned, Governor Dinwiddie told a Williamsburg pressman by the name of William Hunter to publish his report as The Journal of Maj... ...per his request Washington was remembered from then on as the Father of the United States because of his astounding leadership and his ability to bring an entire country together after a war of independence. In Wash ingtons farewell address he said that his successors should keep the highest standards for domestic policies and minimally involve in foreign policies. To this day in memoriam the document is read in the U.S. Senate for his birthday in February. In the House of Burgesses Thomas Jefferson Spoke of Washington and said, On the whole, his character was, in its mass, perfect, in nothing bad, in a few points indifferent and it may truly be said, that never did nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great, and to place him in the same constellation with any(prenominal) worthies have merited from man an everlasting remembrance. (Thomas Jefferson)