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A new exhibit at Sterling Memorial Library provides an inside perspective onto George Washington’s world through his own maps. The exhibit, “America Transformed: From George Washington’s American ...
In 1781, a French map showed George Washington the folly of attacking the British in New York. Now Mount Vernon has the map, which changed history, and hundreds of others collected by a donor.
Archaeologists have located the site of a historic friendly-fire incident that nearly cost George Washington his life.
Throughout his life, George Washington always had a strong connection to the land. Before he was the country's first president, he was a surveyor, mapping land for settlers and speculators.
As a young officer in the French and Indian War, Washington was involved in a devastating friendly fire incident. Military ...
The most important items in George Washington’s library at Mount Vernon were maps. After his death in 1799, an inventory revealed that the library “contained more than ninety maps and atlases ...
DNA analysis of unmarked remains has shed light on a long-standing mystery surrounding the fates of President George Washington’s younger brother Samuel and his kin.
Albert H. Heusser, in his book “George Washington's Map Maker,” includes letters from Erskine to England in which he expressed his concerns relative to the British policy and the response to ...
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