Chapter I: Front Matter

"MAKERS OF AMERICAN HISTORY" SERIES

GEORGE
WASHINGTON

By CALISTA McCABE COURTENAY

ILLUSTRATED BY

A. M. TURNER

AND

HARRIET KAUCHER

Copyright, 1917, by
SAM'L GABRIEL SONS & COMPANY
NEW YORK

CONTENTS

PAGE
CHAPTER I 5

Washington's Early Life--Appointed as Surveyor--First
Trip into the Wilderness--Entrusted with Message
to the French.

CHAPTER II 20

Washington Appointed a Member of Gen. Braddock's
Staff--French and Indian War--Washington Made
Commander of Virginia Forces--Causes of the American
Revolution--Washington a Member of the First Continental
Congress.

CHAPTER III 30

Beginning of the Revolution--Washington
Made Commander-in-Chief
of the Continental
Army--British Forced
to Leave Boston.

CHAPTER IV 40

Declaration of Independence
Signed--Battle
of Long Island--Battle
of White Plains--Washington
Crosses the Delaware
and Surprises the
Hessians at Trenton.

CHAPTER V 52

Recapture of Fort Ticonderoga
by Gen. Burgoyne--Battle
of Brandywine--Battle
of Germantown--Burgoyne's
Surrender
at Saratoga--Washington
at Valley Forge--Alliance with France.

CHAPTER VI 62

Battle of Monmouth--Patriots Receive Aid from France--Recapture
of Fort at Stony Point by Gen. Anthony
Wayne--Washington at Morristown--Surrender of
Charleston, S. C., to the British--Treason of Benedict
Arnold.

CHAPTER VII 73

Gen. Gates Defeated at Camden, S. C.--Battle of King's
Mountain--Washington Sends Aid to the South--Siege of
Yorktown--Surrender of Lord Cornwallis--Peace Treaty
Signed--Washington's Farewell to His Officers.

CHAPTER VIII 83

Washington Retires to Mount Vernon--Inaugurated as
First President of the United States--His Reelection--His
Death at Mount Vernon.

LIST OF COLORED PLATES

Washington Leaving His Home _Frontispiece_

Washington Taking Command of the Army 20

Washington Crossing the Delaware 40

At Valley Forge 52

Washington Bidding Farewell to His Officers 73

Washington Welcomed in New York 83