The American's Own Book

The Declaration, the Constitution, the life of every signer, and every President's inaugural from Washington to Pierce — the patriotic shelf of an American parlor of 1855, complete in one volume.

George Washington,

3 pages in this part of The American's Own Book.

George Washington,

THE founder of American Independence, and first President of the United States, was born in 1732, in the county of Fairfax, in Virginia. He…

George Washington,: Congress

At the commencement of the revolutionary war, he was selected as the most proper person to take the chief command of the provincial troops…

George Washington,: October

The record of his services is the history of the whole war. He joined the army at Cambridge in July, 1775. On the evacuation of Boston, in…

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