The Diaries of George Washington : January 1790-December 1799 (Hardcover)

Washington was rarely isolated from the world during his eventful life. His diary for 1751-52 relates a voyage to Barbados when he was nineteen. The next two accounts concern the early phases of the French and Indian War in which Washington commanded a Virginia regiment. By the 1760s when Washington s diaries resume he considered himself retired from public ...