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Role of George Washington in the American Revolution

Introduction

George Washington assisted as the first President of the United States of America (1789-1797) and directed the Continental Army to triumph over the Kingdom of Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). Washington had exceptional leadership and decision making skills. His strategies were the main reason behind his success (Davis, pp 11).

Discussion

By 1753, the expanding rivalry between the British and French power of the Ohio Valley, which quickly directed into French and Indian War (1754-1763), conceived new possibilities for Washington. He first increased public observe when he was dispatched off in October 1753 by Governor Robert Dinwiddie on an objective to alert the French commander at Fort Le Boeuf contrary to farther violation on the locality asserted by Britain. Washington's journal of the hazards and adversities of his excursion, released at Williamsburg on his comeback, may have assisted win him his next advancement to lieutenant colonel.

Although Washington was only twenty-two years vintage and needed know-how, he wise exceedingly quickly (Davis, pp 15). He contacted the difficulties of provide, recruitment, and desertions with his boldness and widespread proficiency, which acquired him the esteem others. In April 1754, on his way to set up a mail at the Forks of the Ohio, Washington recognized that the French had currently put up an outpost there. Warned that the French was approaching rapidly, he quickly put up defenses at Great Meadows, PA, calling it Fort Necessity, and marched to traverse French troops. In the up-coming assault, the French commander was slain, and most of his men were captured. Washington dragged his little force back into Fort Necessity.

He was totally swamped by the French from an all-day assault battled in the pouring rain. Washington was enclosed by foe troops; with most of his ...