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General Geoige Washington
1732-1799
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY
FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY
ASSERTOR OF LIBERTY
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THE SPIRIT OF '76
General George Washington (1732-1799)
General Henry Knox, it is said, first called George
Washington the “Father of His Country.” The name
endured, because more than any other man, Washington
exemplified the Spirit of '76. With selfless integrity
patriotism, and often with little more resources than the
sheer power of his determination and the force of his
personality, Washington led America's Continental
Army from Cambridge in 1775 to victory at Yorktown in
1781. That road was long and torturous, and
Washington's leadership was on occasion questioned, but
Washington never forgot the words which he had spoken
to his troops before the Battle of Long Island in 1776:
“The time is near at hand which must probably determine
whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves. The fate
of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the
courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and
unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave
resistance, or the most abject submission. We have,
therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.” Independence
won, Washington resigned from the Army, having earned
well the praise that the Nation and the Congress had given
him as “The Assertor of Liberty.”
