Contents
Chapter Page I [Boyhood] 11 II [The Surveyor] 25 III [Three Years in the Wilderness] 32 IV [The Ambassador] 38 V [Washington’s First Battles] 45 VI [A Year of Peace] 54 VII [Quarrel with the Mother Country] 68 VIII [A Trial of Arms] 78 IX [Washington Chosen Commander-in-Chief] 82 X [Washington Before Boston] 86 XI [The Declaration of Independence] 93 XII [Trying Times] 98 XIII [Washington Crosses the Delaware] 106 XIV [Lafayette—Kosciuszko—Steuben] 113 XV [Peace is Declared] 120 XVI [Washington’s Farewell to the Army] 126 XVII [Last Days] 135 XVIII [Blest be His Memory] 142 [Appendix] 145