Born in 1732 Washington pursued two intertwined interests: military arts and western expansion. When Washington was born they wrote an inscription near Fredericksburg, Virginia that read: "Here a matchless flower came to birth- Time paused and blessed the spot." (9) At 16 he helped survey Shenandoah lands for Thomas, Lord Fairfax. Commissioned as a lieutenant colonel in 1754, he fought the first skirmishes of what grew into the French and Indian War. (1) In 1757 he married Martha Dandridge Custis. The …showed first 75 words of 1427 total…

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