The Diaries of George Washington: July 1786-December 1789 Volume 5

by George Washington

Book Overview

Washington was rarely isolated from the world during his eventful life. His diary for 1751-52 relates a voyage to Barbados when he was nineteen. The next two accounts concern the early phases of the French and Indian War, in which Washington commanded a Virginia regiment. By the 1760s when Washington's diaries resume, he considered himself retired from public life, but George III was on the British throne and in the American colonies the process...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813908019
• ISBN13: 9780813908014
• Release Date: October 1979
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 559 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.7" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher