Great American-George Washington

"It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes."

When George Washington, our first president of the Untied States of America, wrote this in his letter to James McHenry on August 10, 1798 he did not know that one day he will be quoted time and time again with this saying. George's word of wisdom is saying: preventing something bad or evil will be easier than trying to and justify, or be forgiven of the mistakes you have made. George Washington served as a colonel in the French and Indian War, and by then in the 1700s was publically known because of his military skills. Later in 1775, Washington was made first into a miliary advisor for New York, then weeks later he was appointed as Commander-in-Chief by the Secondary COntenintal Congress. Geoge's first battle he lost to, but in the battle of Yorktown, he dragged the opposing forces into that town with his men and won the war. By the time the Constitution was enacted, George Washington became president for his first term. A second term George Washington served, but rejected to follow throught with a third term in 1796. Three years later the entire nation mourned over the death of George Washington at Mount Vernon.


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