Erin ’s Reviews > American Patriarch: The Life of George Washington > Status Update

No one was more qualified for the job. In the last 22 years of his 43 years on earth no American had gained more experience in war and military command.

George II was German by birth and English was his 3rd language.

Marthhusbands a husband. Or rather husbands made life easier. A husband could manage her property and let her care for her children.

Sales of tobacco and other crops were Washington's principle source of revenue.

In a pre industrial society when numbers were essential to society's chances of survival and most children died before reaching adulthood. Women were expected to have babies, the more the better.

John Adams was a lawyer from Boston where until now he had moved in the shadow of his cousin Samuel Adams.

New York was a colony founded by the Dutch and became British decades later in the same diplomatic session that made Canada British.

Taking up arms against Britain would be treason. That Washington even considered it at this stage showed how seriously he took the latest threat to American rights.

Boston for years had been the target of British attack and New Englanders had done all the fighting.

In the mid- eighteenth century the game still had a zero sum: what one side won, the other lost.