Life Before the Presidency John Washington, George's great grandfather, reached colonial shores in 1657, settling in Virginia. While little definite information exists on George's ancestors before his father, rumors abound. What is known is that by the time George was born to Augustine and Mary Washington on February 22, 1732, the family had found the lower rung of Virginia's ruling class. He was the eldest child of Augustine's second marriage; there were two sons from the first. Farming …
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…The document was in French, and in it Washington (who did not read French) supposedly had admitted to breaches of military protocol, thus handing the French a great propaganda victory when the text of the document was released in Europe. Not long afterward, Washington was passed over for promotion and he resigned from the army, bitter that the British had not defended his honor. England had decided that the best way to drive the French