Author’s Intro: In Riding with George, I use my background as a war correspondent, sports reporter, and amateur equestrian to focus on Washington’s exploits as a foxhunter, woodsman, warrior ...

After the death of Washington, until 1840, all the swords were at hand in the family, but in 1843 the son of Samuel Washington, the death of Washington, handed the sword he got from his father to ...

George Washington accepts the surrender of the British after the Battle of Yorktown in 1781. David O. Stewarti s the author of “Madison’s Gift: Five Partnerships that Built America” and ...

Feb. 22, 1732 George Washington is born in a modest house at Popes Creek, Westmoreland County, Virginia. His father, Augustine, is a plantation owner who dies when George is 11. June 15, 1775 ...

Happily accepting Smith’s commission, Trumbull painted Washington as he appeared before the 1777 Battle of Princeton — in full uniform, a telescope in one hand, a sword at the ready in the other.