Person

George Washington

Commander of the Continental Army and first U.S. President; owner of the key to the Bastille.

6 links, 4 backed by primary records. 13 more in open data

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Siege of Yorktown commander of the Continental Army Primary record 4
U.S. wars and massacres against Indian nations, 1776 to 1890 in 1779 the United States declared war on the Haudenosaunee; Washington's stated object was "the total destruction and devastation of their settlements" Scholarship & press 2

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Transcript for President George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation, 3 October 1789, U.S. National Archives (via the Obama White House archive), 3 Oct 1789. Primary record
By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation.
Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.
Genocide and American Indian History, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, 2 Mar 2015. Scholarship & press Archived copy
In 1779 the United States declared war on the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) to punish them for raids they had undertaken to roll back colonial settlement.
The object, in George Washington’s words, was “the total destruction and devastation of their settlements.”
To George Washington from Lafayette, 17 March 1790, National Archives, Founders Online, 17 Mar 1790. Primary record Archived copy
The two gifts, together with letters from Lafayette and Paine, arrived in New York in August 1790
French Alliance, French Assistance, and European Diplomacy during the American Revolution, 1778-1782 (Milestones), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Primary record
protected Washington’s forces in Virginia.

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