52671Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
Lieutenant General Rochambeau had suggested in August that he and Rear Admiral Ternay meet GW to...
52672To George Washington from “A Friend to the People,” 13 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
Have we not a right as a nation, to demand the Marquis La’ Fayette as a Citizen of our Country....
52673Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
GW’s nomination on 22 Dec. 1791 of Thomas Pinckney, Gouverneur Morris, and William Short as...
52674To George Washington from Officers among the Sappers and Miners, 19 December 1780 (Washington Papers)
[ West Point, 19 Dec. 1780 ]. Capt. Lt. David Bushnell and four other officers write about “the...
52675Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
Upon his marriage to the widow of Daniel Parke Custis on 6 Jan. 1759, GW assumed the management...
52676Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
E ditorial note . In Feb. 1795 GW resumed making notations on the calendar pages of his almanacs...
52677To George Washington from the Philadelphia Society for the Information and Assistance of Persons Emigrating from Foreign … (Washington Papers)
You are now approached by a society thro their Committee whose province it is to take the...
52678Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
The unwillingness of the French expeditionary force to leave Rhode Island to combine with the...
52679Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
In the years immediately preceding the American Revolution, GW devoted considerable time and...
52680Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
GW’s older half brother Lawrence had been in poor health during the decade following the British...
52681Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
The effectiveness of an army rests in large measure on the quality of its officers. GW recognized...
52682The Washingtons in Barbados (Washington Papers)
The arrival at Bridgetown, on Carlisle Bay, is not well documented because pages are missing from...
52683Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
E ditorial N ote The Society of the Cincinnati was instituted at Fishkill-on-Hudson on 13 May...
52684Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
The following opinions concerning the defense of Philadelphia and the Delaware River apparently...
52685Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
Maj. Gen. Benedict Arnold recruited Joshua Hett Smith—who came from a family with significant...
52686Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
GW’s Farewell Address, published on 19 Sept. 1796, officially announced his decision not to seek...
52687Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
The network of spies and couriers that has come to be known as the Culper ring, on account of the...