George Washington
Date Submitted: 04/29/2001 14:28:33
Category: / History / North American History
Length: 9 pages (2361 words)
Category: / History / North American History
Length: 9 pages (2361 words)
George Washington
He was born 1732 and he died in 1799.
George Washington seems today a figure larger than life itself.....almost as he was when he was a familiar person in the halls, homes, shops, and bars of 18th-century city Williamsburg.
On Duke of Gloucester Street, in the Raleigh Tavern's Apollo Room, or the Governor's Palace Gardens, his powerful frame and his nice attitude..his presence....drew to him the notice that wrote his place in …
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…times and two more doctors came, Elisha Dick of Alexandria and Gustavus Brown. One counseled against bleeding, but more blood was taken.
At midnight Washington said to his secretary, Tobias Lear; 'I am just going. Have me decently buried, and do not let my body be put into the vault in less than three days after I am dead. Do you understand me?'
Lear said, 'Yes.'
Washington's last words were, ''Tis well.'
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