George Washington: A Biographical Companion

Frank E. Grizzard

ABC-CLIO, 2002 - Biography & Autobiography - 437 pages

This encyclopedia offers an A-Z retrospective of George Washington's life, career, and historical significance, based in large part on Washington's own words and those of his contemporaries.

George Washington dominated his era like few other Americans. Yet the complexity of the historic events he was involved in and the sheer magnitude of his correspondence--the most voluminous in colonial America--can be overwhelming for researchers.

The goal of this volume is to make the larger-than-life figure of George Washington accessible to modern researchers. In its 200 entries readers will discover a detailed and surprising portrait. Washington was not a cold, aloof, and unknowable man, but was extremely convivial by nature; a general who commanded the Continental army without pay but was a better administrator than military strategist; a man of deeds whose appearance was, according to one contemporary, truly noble and majestic; a man known to his contemporaries for his complete honesty.

• Includes people who played a seminal role in Washington's life: Martha Dandridge Custis Washington, John Hancock, Robert Dinwiddie, James Rumsey, and others
• Explores Washington's many business interests: distillery, fisheries, Great Kanawha tracts, Mount Vernon, surveying

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In approximately 200 articles ranging from one paragraph to several pages and covering everything from John Adams to the Whiskey Rebellion, Grizzard (political science, Middle Tennessee State Univ ...

Contents

• Alexandria Academy: 3
• Appointment as Commander in Chief: 11
• Asgill Affair: 18
• Bassett Burwell Sr 17341793: 24
• Boston Siege of: 31
• Bullskin Lands Mountain Quarter: 38
• Cherry Tree: 45
• Coat of Arms: 51
• Cornwallis Charles Second Earl: 57
• First in War First in Peace and First in: 77
• Fisheries: 111
• Fort Washington New York: 119
• Gage Thomas c 17191787: 125
• Gist Christopher c 17061759: 132
• Greenway Court: 141
• Harlem Heights Battle of: 147
• Humphreys David 17521818: 154
• James River Company 159: 233
• La Force Michel Pépin 173: 241
• Presidency: 253
• Princeton Battle of: 259
• Ramsay David 17491815: 265
• Robert Cary Co: 273
• St Clair Arthur 17371818: 279
• Society of the Cincinnati: 286
• Spurious Letters: 296
• Tucker St George 17521827 314: 357
• Notes on the Navigation of the Potomac River above the Great Falls: 371

About the author

Frank E. Grizzard, Jr., is director of the Lee Family Digital Archive, an effort to create an online repository of the collected papers of the Lee Family, in Charlottesville, VA. His published works include ABC-CLIO's The Jamestown Colony.

Bibliographic information

• Title: George Washington: A Biographical Companion; ABC-CLIO biographical companion; Biographical Companions Series
• Author: Frank E. Grizzard
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: ABC-CLIO, 2002
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Dec 22, 2006
• ISBN: 1576070824, 9781576070826
• Length: 437 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Historical