George Washington: Commander and Chief

GEORGE WASHINGTON : COMMANDER AND CHIEF

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George Washington was a United States national who was born in Westmoreland County on 22 February 1732 . He was a son to Augustine Washington and Mary Ball . He served as a commander in chief of the armed forces after he was elected by the Continental Congress to be a commander in the American Revolutionary Forces from 1775 to 1783 . He was able to drive out the British armies out of what was referred to as the strategic locations

such as Boston , Yorktown and Saratoga . In 1787 Washington chaired the Philadelphia convention where he played a key role in the drafting of the United States constitution . When his father died , he went to stay with his step brother Lawrence at Mount Vernon and became a big plantation farmer . Washington shown strong passion in maritime and naval activities , a sentiment that was not shared by her mother and instead of going against her mother , he turned to surveying and was lucky to secure himself a surveying job in 1748 at Lord Fairfax 's land . He also played an integral role in surveying and mapping Virginia town which is currently known as Alexandria in 1749 . The 1753 he took advantage of the Ohio rivalry between the French and British over who was supposed to be in control and got a post of an adjutant where he was sent by Governor Robert Dinwiddie to a French commander based at Fort Le Boef to warn...