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George Washington: The Forge of Experience, 1732-1775

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This volume tells about considerably more than half George Washington's life, the forty-three years that elapsed from his birth to his acceptance, at the outbreak of the American Revolution, of the command of the Continental Army.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 390 pages

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