Oddly enough, his family came to America by accident. ... George himself was born on Pope's Creek Plantation in Westmoreland county, Virginia on February 22. ... In 1759, he married Martha Curtis and they were married at her plantation which, ironically, was called White House. ... A lot of his troops went AWOL and that's another cause for Colonial loss. ...
At the age of 16, he lived there and at other plantations along the Rappahannock and Potomac Rivers, including the river later to be known as Mount Vernon. ... Depressed by his defeat and angered by discrimination between British and colonial officers in pay and rank. ... After 1769, Washington became a leader in Virginia's resistance to Great Britain's colonial policies. ... Prejudice against colonial military officers had rankled extremely, and British land policies and restrictions on western expansion after 1763 had seriously delayed his plans for western land conjecture. ... Was...
