Mount Vernon Bookshop DVD's, CD's and Videos Gifts & Reproductions Furniture & Home Décor Children's Corner In the Garden Christmas at Mount Vernon Gourmet Gifts New! New! New! Sale! Sale! Sale! Teaching Resources Membership Donate Home   Mount Vernon Book Shop / George & Martha Washington and Mount Vernon George Washington First in War By Dave R. Palmer. Soft cover with 76 pages. George Washington's long career as soldier began with defeat as a young line officer in the bloody frontier skirmishes of the French and Indian War. It culminated in the role of Commanding General of the Continental Army in victory over the British Army. This soldier's life included long years of spartan campaigning, the creation of a professional army, the honing of innovative tactics and strategies, and the development of crucial international military alliances. In this history of George Washington's career as an army officer, Dave Palmer reveals Washington's many qualities of character that made him an extraordinary military commander; qualities that not only allowed him to lead a fledgling army to secure the independence of his newly-formed country, but defined the role of the military in a free and democratic society. Item #: 5141 Price: $7.95 Qty: Patriarch George Washington and the American Military Tradition

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