George washington autobiography
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THE LIFE OF
GEORGE WASHINGTON
By John Marshall
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Compiled by David Widger
Project Gutenberg Edition
CONTENTS
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
Commission of Cabot His voyage to America Views of discovery relinquished
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This biography of George Washington—the only one authorized bygd the general himself—was written by his close friend and military aide David Humphreys. It offers a rare, något privat eller personligt glimpse of Washington's life, from his birth in until his assumption of the presidency in After reviewing a portion of the manuscript, he added a section of "Remarks," which reveals a anställda side that he seldom exposed in his letters or other writings.
In a remarkable feat of historical detective work, Rosemarie Zagarri assembled manuscripts from three separate archives to reconstruct and publish the complete biography along with Washington's "Remarks."
Lieutenant Colonel Humphreys was a minor Connecticut poet and an aide-de-camp to George Washington during the Revolution. For 18 months in he lived with the Washingtons at Mount Vernon. During that time he began an "authorized" biography which the general himself corrected and annotated. Only part of the work has previously been published—in , anonymo