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Birth
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Period: to
gorge washington
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Commissioned a lieutenant colonel
He fought the first skirmishes of what grew into the French and Indian War. -
Cecame Comander and Chief
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surrender of Yorktown
With the aid of French allies--he forced the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. -
reitered
retire to his fields at Mount Vernon. But he soon realized that the Nation under its Articles of Confederation was not functioning well, so he became a prime mover in the steps leading to the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia -
Became 1st president of the united states
stood on the balcony of federal hall and took oath of the first president of the united states -
Death
from infection in throat