1750s

The boy colonel of the 1750s was a long way from becoming the sage general of the 1770s, because he was too wrapped up in himself to see the world and other people objectively.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

The boy colonel of the 1750s was a long way from becoming the sage general of the 1770s, because he was too wrapped up in himself to see the world and other people objectively.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

The boy colonel of the 1750s was a long way from becoming the sage general of the 1770s, because he was too wrapped up in himself to see the world and other people objectively.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

The boy colonel of the 1750s was a long way from becoming the sage general of the 1770s, because he was too wrapped up in himself to see the world and other people objectively.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

Washington’s most significant change from the 1750s was his conviction that the American military was subordinate to the civil power, which in return must deal with the army through its commander and not interfere politically.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

Washington’s most significant change from the 1750s was his conviction that the American military was subordinate to the civil power, which in return must deal with the army through its commander and not interfere politically.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

Washington’s most significant change from the 1750s was his conviction that the American military was subordinate to the civil power, which in return must deal with the army through its commander and not interfere politically.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

Washington’s most significant change from the 1750s was his conviction that the American military was subordinate to the civil power, which in return must deal with the army through its commander and not interfere politically.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

In the 1750s, in the German town of Bethany on the Georgia frontier, the wife of the local school master was publicly censured and her husband dismissed from his position after she “conceived a lust to dance, and actually did dance” to the sounds of a dulcimer.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

If the Washington of the 1750s had wanted honor above all, the Washington of two decades later knew that he must earn it.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011