Mount Vernon and Its Associations: Historical, Biographical, and PictorialW.A. Townsend, 1859 - 376 Seiten This book offers a more personal glimpse at the life of George Washington, as portrayed through the narrative of his home at Mount Vernon. Important house pieces, locations, and so forth are also discussed in their historical importance, and also meaning in the life of Washington. |
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... returned home in the autumn of 1742 , the provincial army in which he had served having been dis- banded , and Admiral Vernon and General Wentworth re- called to England . He had acquired the friendship and confidence of both those ...
... returned home in the autumn of 1742 , the provincial army in which he had served having been dis- banded , and Admiral Vernon and General Wentworth re- called to England . He had acquired the friendship and confidence of both those ...
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... returned to school , fell desperately in love with a " lowland beauty " ( who reciprocated not his pas sion , but became the mother of General Henry Lee ) , indited sentimental verses , as young lovers are apt to do 32 MOUNT VERNON.
... returned to school , fell desperately in love with a " lowland beauty " ( who reciprocated not his pas sion , but became the mother of General Henry Lee ) , indited sentimental verses , as young lovers are apt to do 32 MOUNT VERNON.
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... returned to tell the anxious wife of his brother that her loved one must go to Bermuda in the spring ; for the hectic glow was growing brighter and his manly strength less . She was preparing to join him there , when word came that ...
... returned to tell the anxious wife of his brother that her loved one must go to Bermuda in the spring ; for the hectic glow was growing brighter and his manly strength less . She was preparing to join him there , when word came that ...
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... returned , first to his mother's home , near Fredericksburg , then to Belvoir , and finally to Mount Vernon , where he spent a greater portion of the winter and spring of 1754 . But Major Washington was not allowed to remain long in ...
... returned , first to his mother's home , near Fredericksburg , then to Belvoir , and finally to Mount Vernon , where he spent a greater portion of the winter and spring of 1754 . But Major Washington was not allowed to remain long in ...
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... returned to Mount Vernon , weak from recent sickness and exposure in the field . In his little library there he wrote to his brother , then a member of the House of Burgesses at Williamsburg , and thus summed up his military career ...
... returned to Mount Vernon , weak from recent sickness and exposure in the field . In his little library there he wrote to his brother , then a member of the House of Burgesses at Williamsburg , and thus summed up his military career ...
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