In his autobiography “George Washington and the American Military Tradition,” Don Higginbotham explores the reciprocity of members of military, soldiers and politicians who molded George Washington’s career in military and fundamentally cultivated the achievement that made our nation independent. Higginbotham also focuses on the legacy of Washington’s triumph, showing that the important mix of civil and military affairs which was hallmark of American Revolution has been diversely considered and only rarely recapitulated by American soldiers from subsequent generations.
George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 in Bridges Creek, Westmoreland County, Virginia. When Washington was eleven years old, his father passed away. He was tossed from one household to another after the death of his father. He spent some of his childhood with his mother who lived in Fredericksburg, with a few relatives from Westmoreland, and with his step brother in Mount Vernon. …show more content…
Many young children grow up listening to the story of a young Washington who takes down a cherry tree with his hatchet, but later acknowledges he did it. Even in his younger years, Washington was an honest man and could not bear the thought of lying or being deceitful. There is no proof to validate this story and it was most likely created by Mason Locke Weems who wrote a biography on Washington a year after he died. When Washington was fourteen, had decided to enroll himself in British navy but later he did not go through with it, abiding his mother’s wishes as she did not want him joining the navy. By the time Washington was sixteen he had learned how to read, survey and measure lands to be plotted, and gained basic understanding of mathematics. Washington was made his county surveyor in 1749. His knowledgeable insights about land partitions and frontier surveys promoted him to the position of a major 1752 in Virginia