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Pt 1 - Childhood into young man making his way in the world first as a Surveyor and then as a Soldier. Retiring from the Army - "The British Empire had committed a major blunder by spurning the talents of such a natural leader..... he had passed through an excellent dress rehearsal for the prolonged ordeal of the American Revolution."

About to marry Martha.
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Washington goes on a Wilderness Mission:
"The young envoy was still feeling his way in a disorienting new world that did not abide by the polite rules of Virginia drawing rooms."

And parlays that into Lt Colonel: "Almost twenty-two, Washington was emerging as a wunderkind to be reckoned with in the world of Virginia politics."
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"Throughout his life, he exhibited a faultless precision in dress, regarding a person‘s apparel as the outward sign of inner order."
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"Lawrence (Washington's half brother)retained clear affection for Admiral Vernon and, in a burst of Anglophilia, would rename the Little Hunting Creek estate Mount Vernon, hanging the admiral‘s portrait in an honored place there. Thus the name of a forgotten British admiral would implausibly grace America‘s secular shrine to the revolt against British rule."
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"Here comes the general
Ladies and gentlemen
Here comes the general
The moment you've been waiting for
Here comes the general
The pride of Mount Vernon
Here comes the general
George Washington"

After hours of the Hamilton Soundtrack and #mynameisalexanderhamiltonreadalong and biography of King George were on to Washington. ? ???
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