The film chronicles the life of Washington Irving, the youngest of eleven children in a modest family, who became a prominent American writer. Despite a brief pursuit of law, Irving's natural ...

Life Facts. Birth Date February 22, 1732; Death Date December 14, 1799; ... George Washington recruited untrained colonial forces for six years until the surrender of the British in October 1781.

They were later split among the president’s great-nephews. And one of those great-nephews, George Corbin Washington, was “always hard up for cash,” Buchtel noted. In 1848, George C. Washington sold ...

George Washington’s Runaway Slave, Harry. ... but at the end of his life the couple owned 317 slaves together. ... Washington’s personal servant, ...

At the time of Washington’s death in 1799, there were 317 enslaved people at Mount Vernon, his home and plantation in Virginia, including 123 people owned by Washington himself. “George ...