European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse T h t Vuk is i Section Washington s army main Battle Washington s warfare against the French and his civilian travels Washington s revolutionary War Battles it i of Boston March 17, 1776 go British Dif Taud at Monmouth 1778 o Bern at woke fold. Vo.,1732 Beni cod Virginia House of burgesses 1758 j moved to it. Vernon. 1748 braised through it. Pitt on lond Hunting trip 1770 of Bahu for new York. 1776 b trip to Wisl indies. 1751 b to Philo Dolphia As Delegate to Continental Congress in 1774 g Surprise attacks at Trenton and b delivered let lir to French commandant 1753 03 took command of colonial army at Boston 1775 Princeton 1777 b surrendered it. Necessity. 1754 b elected president and inaugurated in new York 1789 i j 4 Battles of Brandywine and b helped take it Duquesne from French,l756 b died at it. Vernon dec. 14, 1799 Germantown. Washington at Valley forge 1777-78 British trapped at York town in deciding Battle oct. 19. 1781 diary provides intimate glimpse of Washington document concerns the first president s personal life hardly mentions the affairs of the struggling colonies by Ray Shaw a staff writer on May 30. 1765, Patrick Henry Rose before the Virginia House of Bur Gesses to speak out against the British stamp act urging passage of his famous seven resolutions of resistance against the British. Tarquin and. Caesar had each his Brutus intoned the eloquent Henry Charles the first his Cromwell and George the third cries of treason echoed in the chamber May profit by their by the moving oration the colonial burgesses voted to defy the British and stand behind the seven that night George Washington Delegate from Fairfax made a single notation in his diary Peter Green came to me As next Day the Virginia burgesses apparently feeling after a night s sleep that their vote was Hasty and Overly influenced by Henry s persuasive words rescinded their defiant night George Washington s diary received this addition Cut my Clover for historians had to depend on George Washington s diary for insight on political problems of colonial America they would have Little to write about. He diligently kept a a iary but it concerned his personal life and hardly touched on the affairs of the 13 As a personal document the Washington diary has great gaps. Nevertheless it does contain some intimate glimpses of himself his family and historians say his shortcomings As a diarist and writer were caused by Early difficulty with spelling and grammar. Often he wrote blew when he meant Blue Lye for lie Oil for Oil and rid for in life when asked to write commentaries on the revolution he declined because of a consciousness of a despite Washington s difficulty with the written word he is credited with a keen sense of observation. When he recorded these observations they brightened the pages of his he was 16, Washington was a Mem Ber of a surveying Crew in the Shenandoah Valley. Excerpts from his diary on the trip ". Is found it his bed to be nothing but a Little Straw matted together with out sheets or anything else but Only one thread Bear Blanket with double its weight of vermin such As lice fleas & i was glad to get up. We were agreeable surprised at y. Sight of thirty Odd indians coming fro War with Only one Scalp. We had some liquor with us of which we gave the part it elevating there spirits put them in y Humour of dancing of whom we had a War Daunch. In 1751, when 19, Washington accompanied his ailing brother Lawrence to Barbados West indies. He observed there is several regular risings in this Island one above another so that scarcely any part is deprived of a Beautiful Prospect both of sea and land what is contrary to the observation on other country i that each rising is better than the other below. When he was 20, Washington was sent on a Mission by gov. Dinwiddie of Virginia to the French commandant in the Indian country to the West insisting French forces move from the area. On his return Dinwiddie asked Washington to write a report on the trip and it was sent to England and printed. In a preface Washington explained he had no Leisure to consult of a new and proper form to offer it in or even to Correct or Amend the diction of the nevertheless the article was hailed for its acute observation. Between the years of his marriage in 1759 and the revolution most of washing ton s diary entries concerned his Hunting card playing or visits to his several plantations. Numerous times there Are notation similar to this Fox Hunt. In my own neck. ,. Catch there Are frequent touches of chided his hosts on one occasion for their stinginess saying i shall therefore distinguish this Ball by the Stile and title of the bread and butter when the constitutional convention ended he noted in his diary i returned to my lodgings. And retired to meditation the momentous w or k which had been but he did not detail his meditation. His letters often told More than his diary. After his first fight on the Frontier he wrote to his brother John i have heard the bullets whistle and believe me there is something charming in the later in life when asked about this statement he was reported to have said if i said so it was when i was in his last year of the presidency Washington wrote his wife Martha s grand daughter Nelly Curtis after the Young girl said she was puzzled about love in the composition of the human Frame there is a Good Deal of inflammable mat Ter however dormant it May lie for a time and like an intimate acquaintance of yours when the Torch is put to it that which is within you May burst into a Blaze. Love is said to be an involuntary passion and it is therefore con tended that it cannot be resisted. But he warned ". Love May an therefore ought to be under the guidance of reason for although we cannot avoid first impressions we May assuredly place them under s letter writing and diary keeping were hampered by the revolution. And most of the diary entries during the War concerned his personal life occasionally mentioning the affairs of mount Vernon his Home. He touched Little on his revolutionary War Battles. Through his adult life Washington diary contains details of his ability As businessman and Farmer. When he died he owned 62,000 acres of land and Wassail to be the richest Man in the United states at the retiring from the presidency and returning to mount Vernon Washington wrote about gliding Down the Stream of life and his Relief of being freed from the Busy scenes of Public 1799, he wrote that he always meant to answer the Many letters he received but that when the lights Are brought feel tired and disinclined to engage in this work conceiving that the next night will do As a few months later on dec. 14, 1799, he died. Monday february 23, 1959 the stars and stripes Page 11
