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A Year With George Washington – March 18th

March 18, 2026InA Year With George Washington, Featured

King George III gives his assent to the repeal of the Stamp Act following colonial uproar over its passage the previous year.

A Year With George Washington – March 17th

March 17, 2026InA Year With George Washington, Featured

Succumbing to the siege and potential destruction at the hands of Washington’s Army, British Forces evacuate Boston and set sail for Halifax, Nova Scotia.

A Year With George Washington – March 16th

March 16, 2026InA Year With George Washington, Featured

Washington meets 26-year-old Martha Dandridge Custis for the first time.

A Year With George Washington – March 15th

March 15, 2026InA Year With George Washington, Featured

General Washington diffuses what would become known as the Newburgh Conspiracy with a humble and moving address.

A Year With George Washington – March 14th

March 14, 2026InA Year With George Washington, Featured

Washington inherits full ownership of Mount Vernon upon the death of his sister-in-law, Anne Fairfax Washington Lee.

A Year With George Washington – March 13th

March 13, 2026InA Year With George Washington, Featured

General Washington writes the Reverend Israel Evans from Valley Forge in gratitude for his Thanksgiving Discourse given the previous December 18th.

A Year With George Washington – March 12th

March 12, 2026InA Year With George Washington, Featured

George Washington votes with fellow Burgesses to establish a Committee of Correspondence in an effort to streamline communication between sister colonies and Virginia.

A Year With George Washington – March 11th

March 11, 2026InA Year With George Washington, Featured

Sixteen-year-old George Washington sets out on a land survey expedition with George William Fairfax, who was eight years his senior.

A Year With George Washington – March 10th

March 10, 2026InA Year With George Washington, Featured

In what proved to be one of the greatest and most consequential slights in world history, George Washington relays his growing frustration at the treatment of colonial (irregular) troops and officers by the British Crown.

A Year With George Washington – March 9th

March 9, 2026InA Year With George Washington, Featured

George Washington wrote to George Bryan, the Vice President of Pennsylvania (equivalent to Lieutenant Governor), to commend him for discretion in not allowing citizens to cross into enemy territory to visit those loyal to the crown.

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