On the first Monday in March, Pulaski Day festivities at Chicago's Polish Museum of America honored the "Father of American ... In the optimistic missive, Washington extols the revolutionary ...

His father, Augustine, is a plantation owner who dies when George is 11 ... colonies to independence, Washington found himself again on the battlefront as the new nation began to form itself.

A statue of George Washington was put on display in the Florida Capitol on Thursday as part of the state’s celebrations of America’s 250th anniversary of its founding, to take place next year.

George was only 11 years old when his father died. Upon his father’s death ... as Washington’s former comrades in arms insisted that only he could forge a nation. Washington won the presidency by ...

On the eve of his 293rd birthday, George Washington got his Springfield ... him and pay homage to what he wrought. “Washington was one of our nation’s Founding Fathers and served as an officer ...