Outline of George Washington

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to George Washington:

Military career of George Washington

Military career of George Washington

• Colonel, Virginia militia
• French and Indian War
• George Washington in the French and Indian War
• Lieutenant colonel, Virginia Regiment – Washington's first military commission
• Battle of Jumonville Glen
• Battle of Fort Necessity – Washington's first military battle experience
• Fort Necessity National Battlefield
• Braddock Expedition
• Battle of the Monongahela
• Forbes Expedition
• American Revolutionary War (outline) (timeline)
• George Washington in the American Revolution
• Commander-in-Chief/Commanding General, Continental Army
• Commander-in-Chief's Guard
• Knowlton's Rangers – An espionage detachment of the Continental Army established by George Washington.
• Boston campaign
• Siege of Boston
• New York and New Jersey campaign
• Landing at Kip's Bay
• Battle of Long Island
• Battle of Harlem Heights – Washington's first battlefield success of the Revolutionary War.
• Battle of White Plains
• Battle of Fort Washington
• Battle of Fort Lee
• Crossing of the Delaware River
• Battle of Trenton
• Battle of the Assunpink Creek
• Battle of Princeton
• Forage War
• Philadelphia campaign
• Battle of Brandywine
• Battle of the Clouds
• Battle of Germantown
• Battle of White Marsh
• Valley Forge
• Conway Cabal
• Battle of Monmouth
• Battles of Saratoga
• Yorktown campaign
• Siege of Yorktown
• Asgill Affair
• Newburgh Conspiracy
• Newburgh letter
• Evacuation Day
• George Washington's resignation as commander-in-chief
• Fraunces Tavern
• Established the Badge of Military Merit
• Purple Heart
• Culper spy ring
• Washington's Aides-de-Camp
• Alexander Hamilton
• John Laurens
• John Trumbull
• Washington's Headquarters during the Revolutionary War
• Cumberland, Maryland
• Morristown
• Ford Mansion
• Washington's tent
• Washington's horses
• Nelson
• Blueskin
• Northwest Indian War
• Whiskey Rebellion
• Quasi-War
• Lieutenant General, United States Army
• General of the Armies – promoted posthumously in 1976 by Congress

Political career of George Washington

Political philosophy and views of George Washington

• Religious views of George Washington
• George Washington and slavery

Electoral history of George Washington

Electoral history of George Washington

• 1788–89 United States presidential election
• 1792 United States presidential election
• 1796 United States presidential election – Two electors voted for him despite Washington not campaigning and retiring after two terms

Washington's role in the founding of the United States

Founding Fathers of the United States

• 1769 Virginia Association
• 1774 Fairfax Resolves
• First Continental Congress
• Continental Association
• Second Virginia Convention
• Second Continental Congress
• 1785 Mount Vernon Conference
• Chairman of the 1787 Constitutional Convention
• Court of Appeals in Cases of Capture

Presidency of George Washington

Presidency of George Washington (timeline)

Events during George Washington's presidency

• First inauguration of George Washington
• George Washington's reception at Trenton – during his journey to the first inauguration
• Inaugural bible
• Robert R. Livingston – lawyer, administered the oath of office
• Title of "Mr. President"
• Washington's cabinet
• Cabinet of the United States
• Secretary of State
• Attorney General
• Secretary of the Treasury
• Secretary of War
• Established the Department of Foreign Affairs (later renamed the Department of State), Department of War, Department of the Treasury
• Helped charter the First Bank of the United States
• Second inauguration of George Washington
• William Cushing – associate Supreme Court justice, administered the oath of office
• United States Capitol cornerstone laying
• List of federal judges appointed by George Washington
• People pardoned or granted clemency by George Washington

Legislation passed

• An Act to regulate the Time and Manner of administering certain Oaths
• Tariff of 1789
• Regulation of the Collection of Duties on Tonnage and Merchandise, which established the United States Customs Service
• Judiciary Act of 1789, which established the federal judiciary and the office of Attorney General
• Thanksgiving Proclamation
• Naturalization Act of 1790
• Patent Act of 1790
• Crimes Act of 1790
• Copyright Act of 1790
• Residence Act, a part of the Compromise of 1790, it established Washington D.C. as the seat of government of the United States
• Nonintercourse Act, the first of six statues for regulating commerce with Indigenous tribes
• Funding Act of 1790, a part of the Compromise of 1790, it authorized the assumption of state debt
• Collection of Duties Act, which established the United States Revenue Cutter Service (which was later merged with the United States Life-Saving Service to form the United States Coast Guard)
• Tariff of 1790
• Tariff of 1791, which led to the Whiskey Rebellion
• Militia Acts of 1792
• Coinage Act of 1792
• United States Mint
• Slave Trade Act of 1794
• Proclamation of Neutrality
• Neutrality Act of 1794
• Jay Treaty
• Pinckney's Treaty

George Washington's notable speeches

• National Thanksgiving Proclamation <small>(1789)</small>
• 1790 State of the Union Address <small>(January)</small>
• 1790 State of the Union Address <small>(December)</small>
• 1791 State of the Union Address
• 1792 State of the Union Address
• 1793 State of the Union Address
• 1794 State of the Union Address
• 1795 State of the Union Address
• 1796 State of the Union Address
• Farewell Address

Post-presidency of George Washington

Post-presidency of George Washington

• Quasi-War

Personal life of George Washington

• Religious views of George Washington
• George Washington and slavery
• Coat of arms of the Washington family

Family of George Washington

Washington family

• George Reade (colonial governor) – great-great grandfather
• Lawrence Washington (1602–1653) – great grandfather
• John Washington – great-grandfather
• Lawrence Washington (1659–1698) – grandfather
• Mildred Gale – grandmother
• Augustine Washington – father
• Mary Ball – mother
• Martha Dandridge Custis Washington – wife
• Samuel Washington – brother
• John A. Washington – brother
• Charles Washington – brother
• Betty Washington Lewis – sister
• Lawrence Washington (1718–1752) – half-brother
• Bushrod Washington – nephew
• Lawrence Augustine Washington (1774–1824) – nephew
• Augustine Washington Jr. – half-brother
• John Parke Custis – stepson
• George Washington Parke Custis – step-grandson, adopted son
• Eleanor Parke Custis – step-granddaughter, adopted daughter

Homes and places

• Early life
• Birthplace
• Ferry Farm boyhood home
• 1751 Barbados trip
• River Farm – acquired in 1960
• Mount Vernon – inherited remainder interest from Lawrence Washington in 1752, became sole owner in 1761
• Fishery
• Gristmill
• Woodlawn Plantation
• Whiskey distillery
• Samuel Osgood House, First Presidential Mansion
• Alexander Macomb House, Second Presidential Mansion
• President's House, Philadelphia, Third Presidential Mansion
• Germantown White House
• Custis estate
• Potomac Company
• James River and Kanawha Canal

Washington and slavery

Washington and slavery

• List of enslaved people of Mount Vernon
• Betty
• Caroline Branham
• William Costin
• West Ford
• Sarah Johnson
• Oney Judge
• Philip Lee
• William Lee
• Hercules Posey
• Christopher Sheels
• Deborah Squash
• Harry Washington

George Washington's legacy

Legacy of George Washington

• Attempted theft of George Washington's skull
• Bibliography of George Washington
• Conotocaurius (Town Destroyer)
• Credited as the Father of the American Foxhound, Father of His Country/Father of America
• General of the Armies
• George Washington's teeth
• Virginia dynasty

Awards established by George Washington

Congressional

• Congressional Gold Medal

Military

• Badge of Military Merit
• Purple Heart
• Certificate of Merit Medal
• The Papers of George Washington

Awards received by George Washington

• Thanks of Congress
• Washington Before Boston Medal – the first Congressional Gold Medal, presented by the Second Continental Congress.

Awards named in honour of George Washington

• George Washington Book Prize
• George Washington Honor Medal
• George Washington Spymaster Award

Companies and societies George Washington founded

• Honorary president, James River Company
• Mountain Road Lottery
• President, Potomac Company
• President General, Society of the Cincinnati

Cultural depictions of George Washington

Cultural depictions of George Washington

• Cherry-tree anecdote

Washington's image on money

• United States one-dollar bill
• Quarter coin
• U.S. postage stamps
• Other currency

Films about Washington

• George Washington <small>(1984 miniseries}</small>
• The Crossing <small>(2000 film)</small>
• Washington <small>(2020 miniseries)</small>

Memorials to and monuments of George Washington

Memorials to George Washington

• Evacuation Day (New York) – mainly commemorating the end of the American Revolution, a statue of George Washington was unveiled as part of the celebrations
• Washington's Birthday (Presidents' Day)

Places

• Washington state
• Washington, D.C.
• Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington
• George Washington University
• George Washington Bridge
• George Washington Memorial Parkway
• Washington and Jefferson National Forests
• Washington and Lee University
• Washington College
• Washington's Crossing
• Washington University
• Washington (tree)

Monuments to George Washington

• Mount Rushmore
• Washington Masonic National Memorial
• Washington Monument
• Washington Monument, Baltimore
• Washington Monument, Boonsboro
• Washington Monument, Philadelphia

Statues of George Washington

List of statues of George Washington

• George Washington – marble bust portrait by Giuseppe Ceracchi
• George Washington – statue by Jean-Antoine Houdon
• Point of View – statue by James A. West
• Washington, D.C. statue – statue by Clark Mills
• George Washington – marble statue in Trenton

Paintings of Washington

• Athenaeum Portrait – unfinished painting by Gilbert Stuart
• General George Washington at Trenton – portrait by John Trumbull
• General George Washington Resigning His Commission – painting by John Trumbull
• George Washington and William Lee – portrait by John Trumbull
• Lansdowne portrait – painting by Gilbert Stuart
• Reception to Washington on April 21, 1789, at Trenton on his way to New York to Assume the Duties of the Presidency of the United States – painting by Newell Convers Wyeth
• Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States – painting by Howard Chandler Christy
• The Apotheosis of Washington – 1865 fresco of Washington on the ceiling of the U.S. Capitol Building, by Constantino Brumidi
• The Passage of the Delaware – painting by Thomas Sully
• The Washington Family – portrait by Edward Savage
• Washington and the Departure of the British Garrison from New York City – painting by John Trumbull
• Washington at Princeton – painting by Charles Wilson Peale
• Washington at Verplanck's Point – portrait by John Trumbull
• Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851 paintings) – three paintings by Emanuel Leutze
• Washington Crossing the Delaware (1953 painting) – painting by Larry Rivers
• U.S. Postage stamps
• Washington-Franklin Issues
• 1932 bicentennial

Ships named in honor of George Washington

• USS George Washington <small>(disambiguation)</small>
• SS George Washington
• USS George Washington (CVN-73)
• USS Washington <small>(disambiguation)</small> (not all are named in honor of George Washington)
• USRC Washington (1833)

Publications about George Washington

Bibliography of George Washington

• A Birthday Cake for George Washington
• George Washington: An Initial Biography
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• Leader by Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot
• The Crossing: How George Washington Saved the American Revolution
• The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
• "The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret": George Washington, Slavery and the Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon
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See also

• Republicanism
• Federalist Party
• Federalist Era
• American Philosophical Society
• Mount Vernon Ladies' Association
• List of presidents of the United States
• List of American Revolutionary War battles
• British Army during the American War of Independence
• List of bibliographies on American history

References

External links

• George Washington's Mount Vernon
• American President: George Washington (1732–1799) at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia
• George Washington: A Resource Guide at the Library of Congress
• George Washington Resources at the University of Virginia Library
• Original Digitized Letters of George Washington Shapell Manuscript Foundation
• The Papers of George Washington at the Avalon Project
• The Papers of George Washington, subset of Founders Online from the National Archives
• George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Virginia from the National Park Service
• Copies of the wills of General George Washington: the first president of the United States and of Martha Washington, his wife (1904), edited by E. R. Holbrook

• George Washington Personal Manuscripts