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Title: George Washington, Vol. II

Author: Henry Cabot Lodge

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Language: English

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[Illustration: MARTHA WASHINGTON]

American Statesmen

STANDARD LIBRARY EDITION

[Illustration: Mount Vernon]

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GEORGE WASHINGTON

BY

HENRY CABOT LODGE

IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. II.

1899

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER.

I. WORKING FOR UNION
II. STARTING THE GOVERNMENT
III. DOMESTIC AFFAIRS
IV. FOREIGN RELATIONS
V. WASHINGTON AS A PARTY MAN
VI. THE LAST YEARS
VII. GEORGE WASHINGTON

INDEX

ILLUSTRATIONS

MARTHA WASHINGTON

From the painting by Gilbert Stuart in the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston. This painting is owned by the Boston Athenaeum and is known as
the Athenaeum portrait.

Autograph from letter written from Valley Forge, March 7, 1778, now in
the possession of Hon. Winslow Warren.

The vignette of Mount Vernon is from a photograph.

WASHINGTON RESIGNING HIS COMMISSION AT ANNAPOLIS

From the original painting by Trumbull in the Art Gallery of Yale
University.

LAFAYETTE

From a contemporary French folio engraving in the Emmet collection,
New York Public Library, Lenox Building.

HENRY KNOX

From the original portrait by Gilbert Stuart in the Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston.

Autograph from Winsor's "America."

NATHANAEL GREENE

From the original painting by C.W. Peale, by kind permission of its
present owner, Mrs. Wm. Brenton Greene, Jr., Princeton, N.J.

Autograph from Winsor's "America."

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GEORGE WASHINGTON

CHAPTER I

WORKING FOR UNION

Having resigned his commission, Washington stood not upon the order of
his going, but went at once to Virginia, and reached Mount Vernon the
next day, in season to enjoy the Christmas-t