The first president of the USA.

GeorgeWashington

•             Born: 22 February 1732

•             Birthplace: Westmoreland County, Virginia

•             Died: 14 December 1799    

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•             George Washington is called "the father of his country" for his crucial role in fighting for, creating and leading the United States of America in its earliest days. Washington was a surveyor, farmer and soldier who rose to command the Colonial forces in the Revolutionary War. He held the ragtag Continental Army together -- most famously during a frigid encampment at Valley Forge,

Pennsylvania during the winter of 1777-78 -- and eventually led them to victory over the British. His success in the war made him a tremendously popular figure in America even after he retired to his farm at Mount Vernon in 1783. He was the natural choice to serve as the country's first president in 1789 after the new United States Constitution was ratified. He served two terms, refused a third, and returned to his Virginia farm. In 1798 he was again commissioned as Commander in Chief of the Army, a title he held until his death 18 months later. He was succeeded as president by John Adams

Population: 588,000.

Washington   (the state)

•              Washington  is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States located north of Oregon, west of Idaho and south of the Canadian province of British Columbia, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean. Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory which had been ceded by Britain in 1846 by the Oregon Treaty as settlement of the Oregon Boundary Dispute. It was admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889.

•              Washington was named after George Washington,

the first President of the United States, and is the only U.S. state named after a president. Washington is commonly called Washington state or occasionally the State of Washington to distinguish it from the U.S. Capital.

THE MEANING OF THE  WORD

“WASHINGTON”

Lake Washington

Washington Avenue

Mount Washington

                                    Washington Boulevard                                                                   

Washington Bridge

Washington Street

Washington Island

Washington Park

üGeorge Washington (1732–1799), military general and first

President of the United States of America

üWashington (state), a state on the Pacific coast of the

                United States of America                                                                                        

üWashington, D.C., the capital of the United States of

America

The Washington Metropolitan Area

A metonym for the Federal government of the United States

üBoeing Washington, British designation for US Boeing B-29

Super fortress bomber

üSS Washington, an ocean liner

üUSS Washington, the name of several U.S. Navy ships

üWashington, D.C. (novel), by Gore Vidal

üWashington F.C., football club based in Washington, Tyne and Wear, England

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