Essay #3: George Washington

George Washington was a huge historical figure for America, he was well known as the first president of the United States. Though what most people dont know is the stuff that George Washinton had to go through to get to that point in history. He was involved in many different things for example, how he started his famous era would be when John Adams appointed him as commander of continental army. Then he Washington gets into a war called battle of Trenton and leads his army over the Delaware line in the winter time, this was a mistake because tons of people had started to get pneumonia and got very sick and started to die off.



One of Washingtons high points would have been when he retreated from the battle of Trenton to avoid General Cornwaillis' attack, he also made a good desicion by in Princeton when Washington ambushes the Brittish troops and has a long war with Brittain though the escaped and got out of Cornwallisis attack agian. Another thing thought that George Washington did wrong was when he sent the troops to Brooklynn, he had half the amount of troops then what the brittish had. The Brittish drove the troops out of Brooklynn and into New York. Though one more thing that Washington was succesfull at was the battle of Trenton, it was a clear victory for Washington and his troops. He had a rough and hard journey there by they made it and had a very nice battle agianst the Brittish.



Washington had a unique role in playing the founding of America because he went and became lieutenant colonel, then was appointed to commander in chief then had some more army experiances and then he lost New York City to the brittish and that was a down fall. Though after the war even though he had just as much bad experiances as good they appointed him president and he became a very large historical figure for that, though at this time they had also issued the declaration of independence. Though today if our running presidents were to do anything even close to as nad as what washington did we wouldn't have them be in office.