George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 in Westmoreland County, Virginia to Augustine and Mary Ball Washington. His father was an enterprising planter and businessman. His mother was his father's second wife. Washington's early education and training focused mainly on surveying, which he was drawn to because surveyors are wanderers by choice and Washington was a wanderer. While Washington was a surveyor, which were said to be executives of nature and wanderers by choice," his early ambitions included wanting control and longing "to be part of a fashionable society." Although not much is said about Washington's early childhood, the parts of his childhood that are known almost foreshadow his life long search of "control" and the many hard times he would face and overcome.
George Washington lived during the eighteenth century. This was a time when the first colonies of the United States were still owned by Britain. It was also a time when colonists "objected to strict enforcement" of many British laws and taxes placed on colonial imports. In the late eighteenth century, colonists began to boycott British goods, attack British troops, and protest as an attempt to get rid of these unfair laws and taxes. They established a Continental Congress, which "coordinated the colonies resistance to British policies." In 1775, because Britain was angry with the colonists and George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 in Westmoreland County, Virginia .
At the age of twenty-one, Washington was looking for glory and also an acknowledged position among some of his "aristocratic role models." Washington soon had the chance to gain the glory and position he wanted. In 1753 Washington took part in the French and Indian War. During this time Washington fought for the British. However, criticism began against him for losing a battle at Fort Necessity so he "resigned from his commission" in 1754.