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100	1		_aIrving, Washington, _d1783-1859
245	1	0	_aLife of George Washington, volume 2 of 5
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-09-03
508			_aRichard Tonsing, Emmanuel Ackerman, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520			_a"Life of George Washington, volume 2 of 5" by Washington Irving is a historical biography written in the mid-19th century. This volume centers on Washington’s early leadership of the Continental Army, charting the siege of Boston, the fraught Canadian venture, and the opening New York–New Jersey campaigns. It highlights battlefield decisions, supply and discipline challenges, and vivid portraits of both American and British commanders, revealing how Washington forged an army under pressure. The opening of the volume follows Washington’s arrival at Cambridge to take command, his survey of British leaders (Howe, Clinton, Burgoyne), and a stark contrast between well-ordered British lines and a raw, sprawling American force short on men, engineers, and supplies. Irving sketches the camp’s personalities and organization—Putnam’s energy, Greene’s promise, Gates’s role, Lee’s harsh discipline and irreverence, and Washington’s close reliance on Joseph Reed—while describing reforms in logistics and fortifications and the arrival of frontier riflemen under Daniel Morgan. Washington refuses to scatter his army along the coast, articulates a clear policy for defending the whole, and, amid efforts to provoke a British sortie at Boston, grapples with a near-ruinous powder shortage and asserts the dignity of the patriot cause in a firm exchange with General Gage over prisoner treatment. Parallel chapters trace turmoil on the northern frontier—Allen and Arnold’s rivalry after Ticonderoga, Congress’s legitimizing steps, Schuyler and Montgomery’s preparations, Indian diplomacy at Cambridge, and the conception of a bold overland thrust toward Quebec—culminating in Schuyler’s small force pushing to the Isle aux Noix and Washington’s unsuccessful attempt to draw the British out by seizing a forward hill near Charlestown Neck. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cNew York: G. P. Putnam, 1855
653			_aPresidents -- United States -- Biography
653			_aWashington, George, 1732-1799
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/lifeofgeorgewash02irvi
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76805
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