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BY:HAYDEN BERGAD = **George Washington** = ** George Washington was born on February 2, 1732 in Westmoreland County, Virginia and died on December 14, 1799 in Mount Vernon, Virginia. His dad's name was Augustine Washington. His dad married Jane Butler and she died. So, Augustine (George's dad) married Mary Ball who was George's mother. George had a total of 8 siblings, 3 from Jane and 5 from Mary. He was born in Pope's Creek in Westmoreland County, Virginia and then moved to Potomac River. After he lived there for a while he then moved to Little Hunting Creek Plantation (Mount Vernon) but he wasn't done yet. He finally moved to Ferry Farm on the Rappahannock River (opposite of Fredericksburg, Virginia.) His dad died at age 11. George ended up marrying Martha Dandridge Custis. George was also the first president of the United States, and a general in the American Revolution. **   ** George was the general of the colonists in the American Revolution. He was one of the reasons that the colonists gained independence. He was in the following battles: Long Island, Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown, and Yorktown. George Washington was almost the first person in America to recognize the flaws in the Articles of Confederation. He even said "The disinclination of the individual States to yield competent powers to Congress for the Federal Government—their unreasonable jealousy of that body and of one another—& the disposition which seems to pervade each, of being all-wise and all-powerful within itself, will, if there is not a change in the system, be our downfall as a Nation. This is as clear to me as the A. B. C.” This means George Washington was the start of the domino effect as people started to realize, this is not going to work. **