Outline of George Washington

Military career of George Washington

• Colonel, Virginia militia
• French and Indian War
  • George Washington in the French and Indian War
    • Lieutenant colonel, Virginia Regiment – Washington's first military commission
    • Battle of Jumonville Glen
    • Battle of Fort Necessity – Washington's first military battle experience
      • Fort Necessity National Battlefield
    • Braddock Expedition
    • Battle of the Monongahela
    • Forbes Expedition
• American Revolutionary War (outline) (timeline)
  • George Washington in the American Revolution
    • Commander-in-Chief/Commanding General, Continental Army
      • Commander-in-Chief's Guard
      • Knowlton's Rangers – An espionage detachment of the Continental Army established by George Washington.
    • Boston campaign
      • Siege of Boston
    • New York and New Jersey campaign
      • Landing at Kip's Bay
      • Battle of Long Island
      • Battle of Harlem Heights – Washington's first battlefield success of the Revolutionary War.
      • Battle of White Plains
      • Battle of Fort Washington
      • Battle of Fort Lee
      • Crossing of the Delaware River
      • Battle of Trenton
      • Battle of the Assunpink Creek
      • Battle of Princeton
      • Forage War
    • Philadelphia campaign
      • Battle of Brandywine
      • Battle of the Clouds
      • Battle of Germantown
      • Battle of White Marsh
      • Valley Forge
      • Conway Cabal
      • Battle of Monmouth
    • Battles of Saratoga
    • Yorktown campaign
      • Siege of Yorktown
    • Asgill Affair
    • Newburgh Conspiracy
      • Newburgh letter
      • Newburgh address
    • Evacuation Day
    • George Washington's resignation as commander-in-chief
      • Fraunces Tavern
    • Established the Badge of Military Merit
      • Purple Heart
    • Culper spy ring
    • Washington's Aides-de-Camp
      • Alexander Hamilton
      • John Laurens
      • John Trumbull
    • Washington's Headquarters during the Revolutionary War
      • Cumberland, Maryland
      • Morristown
      • Ford Mansion
    • Washington's tent
    • Washington's horses
      • Nelson
      • Blueskin
• Northwest Indian War
• Whiskey Rebellion
• Quasi-War
  • Lieutenant General, United States Army
• General of the Armies – promoted posthumously in 1976 by Congress^[1][2]

• Presidential library
• Religious views of George Washington
• George Washington and slavery

Electoral history of George Washington

• 1788–89 United States presidential election
• 1792 United States presidential election
• 1796 United States presidential election – Two electors voted for him despite Washington not campaigning and retiring after two terms

Founding Fathers of the United States

• 1769 Virginia Association
• 1774 Fairfax Resolves
• First Continental Congress
• Continental Association
• Second Virginia Convention
• Second Continental Congress
• 1785 Mount Vernon Conference
• Chairman of the 1787 Constitutional Convention
• Court of Appeals in Cases of Capture

Presidency of George Washington (timeline)

• First inauguration of George Washington
  • George Washington's reception at Trenton – during his journey to the first inauguration
  • Inaugural bible
  • Robert R. Livingston – lawyer, administered the oath of office
• Title of "Mr. President"
• Washington's cabinet
  • Cabinet of the United States
    • Secretary of State
    • Attorney General
    • Secretary of the Treasury
    • Secretary of War
• Established the Department of Foreign Affairs (later renamed the Department of State), Department of War, Department of the Treasury
• Helped charter the First Bank of the United States
• Second inauguration of George Washington
  • William Cushing – associate Supreme Court justice, administered the oath of office
• United States Capitol cornerstone laying
• List of federal judges appointed by George Washington
• People pardoned or granted clemency by George Washington

• An Act to regulate the Time and Manner of administering certain Oaths
• Tariff of 1789
• Regulation of the Collection of Duties on Tonnage and Merchandise, which established the United States Customs Service
• Judiciary Act of 1789, which established the federal judiciary and the office of Attorney General
• Thanksgiving Proclamation
• Naturalization Act of 1790
• Patent Act of 1790
• Crimes Act of 1790
• Copyright Act of 1790
• Residence Act, a part of the Compromise of 1790, it established Washington D.C. as the seat of government of the United States
• Nonintercourse Act, the first of six statues for regulating commerce with Indigenous tribes
• Funding Act of 1790, a part of the Compromise of 1790, it authorized the assumption of state debt
• Collection of Duties Act, which established the United States Revenue Cutter Service (which was later merged with the United States Life-Saving Service to form the United States Coast Guard)
• Tariff of 1790
• Tariff of 1791, which led to the Whiskey Rebellion
  • Militia Acts of 1792
• Coinage Act of 1792
  • United States Mint
• Slave Trade Act of 1794
• Proclamation of Neutrality
  • Neutrality Act of 1794
• Jay Treaty
• Pinckney's Treaty

• Acceptence of Command of the Continental Army (1775)
• Newburgh address (1783)
• First Inaugural Address (1789)
• National Thanksgiving Proclamation (1789)
• 1790 State of the Union Address (January)
• 1790 State of the Union Address (December)
• 1791 State of the Union Address
• 1792 State of the Union Address
• Second Inaugural Address (1793)
• 1793 State of the Union Address
• 1794 State of the Union Address
• 1795 State of the Union Address
• 1796 State of the Union Address
• Farewell Address
• More...

Post-presidency of George Washington

• Quasi-War

• Religious views of George Washington
• George Washington and slavery
• Coat of arms of the Washington family

Washington family

• George Reade (colonial governor) – great-great grandfather
• Lawrence Washington (1602–1653)
  – great grandfather
• John Washington – great-grandfather
• Lawrence Washington (1659–1698) – grandfather
• Mildred Gale – grandmother
• Augustine Washington – father
• Mary Ball – mother
• Martha Dandridge Custis Washington – wife
• Samuel Washington – brother
• John A. Washington – brother
• Charles Washington – brother
• Betty Washington Lewis
  – sister
• Lawrence Washington (1718–1752) – half-brother
• Bushrod Washington – nephew
• Lawrence Augustine Washington (1774–1824) – nephew
• Augustine Washington Jr. – half-brother
• John Parke Custis – stepson
• George Washington Parke Custis – step-grandson, adopted son
• Eleanor Parke Custis – step-granddaughter, adopted daughter

• Early life
• Birthplace
• Ferry Farm boyhood home
• 1751 Barbados trip
• River Farm – acquired in 1960^[3]
• Mount Vernon – inherited remainder interest from Lawrence Washington in 1752,^[4] became sole owner in 1761^[5]
  • Fishery
  • Gristmill
  • Woodlawn Plantation
  • Whiskey distillery
• Samuel Osgood House, First Presidential Mansion
• Alexander Macomb House, Second Presidential Mansion
• President's House, Philadelphia, Third Presidential Mansion
• Germantown White House
• Custis estate
• Potomac Company
• James River and Kanawha Canal
• Mountain Road Lottery
• President-General of the Society of the Cincinnati

• List of enslaved people of Mount Vernon
• Betty
• Caroline Branham
• William Costin
• West Ford
• Sarah Johnson
• Oney Judge
• Philip Lee
• William Lee
• Hercules Posey
• Christopher Sheels
• Deborah Squash
• Harry Washington

Legacy of George Washington

• Attempted theft of George Washington's skull
• Bibliography of George Washington
• Conotocaurius (Town Destroyer)
• Credited as the Father of the American Foxhound,^[6][7] Father of His Country/Father of America
• General of the Armies
• George Washington's teeth
• Virginia dynasty

• Congressional Gold Medal

• Badge of Military Merit
  • Purple Heart
• Certificate of Merit Medal
• The Papers of George Washington

• Thanks of Congress
• Washington Before Boston Medal – the first Congressional Gold Medal,^[8] presented by the Second Continental Congress.

• George Washington Book Prize
• George Washington Honor Medal
• George Washington Spymaster Award

• Honorary president, James River Company
• Mountain Road Lottery
• President, Potomac Company
• President General, Society of the Cincinnati

Cultural depictions of George Washington

• Cherry-tree anecdote

• United States one-dollar bill
• Quarter coin
• U.S. postage stamps
• Other currency

• George Washington (1984 miniseries}
• George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation (1986 sequel)
• The Crossing (2000 film)
• Washington (2020 miniseries)

Memorials to George Washington

• Evacuation Day (New York) – mainly commemorating the end of the American Revolution, a statue of George Washington was unveiled as part of the celebrations^[9]
• Washington's Birthday
  (Presidents' Day)

• Washington state
• Washington, D.C.
• George Washington University
• George Washington Bridge
• George Washington Memorial Parkway
• Washington and Jefferson National Forests
• Washington and Lee University
• Washington College
• Washington's Crossing
• Washington University
• Washington (tree)

• Mount Rushmore
• Washington Masonic National Memorial
• Washington Monument
• Washington Monument, Baltimore
• Washington Monument, Boonsboro
• Washington Monument, Philadelphia

List of statues of George Washington

• George Washington – marble bust portrait by Giuseppe Ceracchi
• George Washington
  – statue by Jean-Antoine Houdon
• Point of View – statue by James A. West
• Washington, D.C. statue – statue by Clark Mills
• George Washington – marble statue in Trenton

• Athenaeum Portrait – unfinished painting by Gilbert Stuart
• General George Washington at Trenton – portrait by John Trumbull
• General George Washington Resigning His Commission – painting by John Trumbull
• George Washington and William Lee – portrait by John Trumbull
• Lansdowne portrait – painting by Gilbert Stuart
• Reception to Washington on April 21, 1789, at Trenton on his way to New York to Assume the Duties of the Presidency of the United States – painting by Newell Convers Wyeth
• Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States – painting by Howard Chandler Christy
• The Apotheosis of Washington – 1865 fresco of Washington on the ceiling of the U.S. Capitol Building, by Constantino Brumidi
• The Passage of the Delaware – painting by Thomas Sully
• The Washington Family – portrait by Edward Savage
• Washington and the Departure of the British Garrison from New York City – painting by John Trumbull
• Washington at Princeton – painting by Charles Wilson Peale
• Washington at Verplanck's Point – portrait by John Trumbull
• Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851 paintings) – three paintings by Emanuel Leutze
• Washington Crossing the Delaware (1953 painting) – painting by Larry Rivers
• U.S. Postage stamps
  • Washington-Franklin Issues
  • 1932 bicentennial

• USS George Washington (disambiguation)
  • SS George Washington
  • USS George Washington (CVN-73)
• USS Washington (disambiguation) (not all are named in honor of George Washington)
  • USRC Washington (1833)

Bibliography of George Washington

• A Birthday Cake for George Washington
• George Washington: An Initial Biography
• His Excellency: George Washington
• Leader by Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot
• The Crossing: How George Washington Saved the American Revolution
• The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
• "The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret": George Washington, Slavery and the Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon
• Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring
• Washington: A Life
• You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington

• Republicanism
• Federalist Party
  • Federalist Era
• American Philosophical Society
• Mount Vernon Ladies' Association
• List of presidents of the United States
• List of American Revolutionary War battles
• British Army during the American War of Independence
• List of bibliographies on American history