His formal schooling abruptly cut off at age eleven, George Washington saw his boyhood dream of joining the British army evaporate and recognized that even his

When it comes to the Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton are generally considered the great minds of early America. Ge

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Excerpt from The Life of George Washington: Written for the Use of Schools At the age of ten years, he lost his father. An affectionate mother continued to impr