The Washingtons : George and Martha, "join'd by friendship, crown'd by love" / Flora Fraser.

By: Fraser, Flora [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015Edition: First United States editionDescription: xviii, 440 pages, 24 unnumbered plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits, maps ; 25 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780307272782Subject(s): Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Marriage | Washington, Martha, 1731-1802 -- Marriage | Presidents -- United States -- Biography | Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Biography | Generals -- United States -- Biography | Generals' spouses -- United States -- Biography | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- BiographyGenre/Form: Biographies. DDC classification: 973.4/10922
Contents:
Book one: The colonel and his lady, 1758-1775 -- Colonial colonel -- Dandridge's daughter -- North and south -- Mount Vernon, Fairfax County -- Family affairs -- Acts and associations -- Fevers and physicians -- The schooling of Jacky Custis -- Death and adjustment -- Continental Army -- Book two: The general and Lady Washington, 1775-1783 -- Taking command, 1775 -- Besieging Boston, 1775-1776 -- New York and Philadelphia, 1776 -- Retreat to the Delaware, 1776-1777 -- Morristown and Brandywine, 1777 -- Valley Forge, 1777-1778 -- Philadelphia and Middlebrook, New Jersey, 1778-1779 -- The hard winter: Morristown, 1779-1780 -- Home and headquarters, 1780-1781 -- Victory on the York and private grief, 1781 -- Uncertainty and disaffection, 1781-1783 -- Peace on the Hudson, 1783 -- Book three: After the war, 1784-1802 -- Mount Vernon, 1784-1786 -- Conventions and elections, 1787-1789 -- New York houses, 1789-1790 -- Market Street, Philadelphia, 1790-1793 -- Second term, 1793-1797 -- Retirement, 1797-1798 -- The death of a president, 1799 -- Dissolution, 1799-1802.
Summary: The Washingtons long union begins in colonial Virginia in 1759, when George Washington woos and weds Martha Dandridge Parke Custis, a pretty, charming, and very rich young widow. The calm early years of their marriage as plantation owners at Mount Vernon and as parents to Martha s two children, Jacky and Patsy both of whom present difficult challenges yield to harsher times. Washington has been prominent among Virginians in opposing British government measures, and at the outbreak of fighting in 1775 he is elected commander-in-chief of the Continental army. The war sees Martha resolutely supporting her husband, sharing in the hardships at Valley Forge and other wretched winter headquarters. Essential to George s personal well-being, she is known as Lady Washington a redoubtable and vastly admired figure in her own right. This book is a remarkable story of a remarkable pair as well as a gripping narrative of the birth of a nation.
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Maps on lining pages.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Book one: The colonel and his lady, 1758-1775 -- Colonial colonel -- Dandridge's daughter -- North and south -- Mount Vernon, Fairfax County -- Family affairs -- Acts and associations -- Fevers and physicians -- The schooling of Jacky Custis -- Death and adjustment -- Continental Army -- Book two: The general and Lady Washington, 1775-1783 -- Taking command, 1775 -- Besieging Boston, 1775-1776 -- New York and Philadelphia, 1776 -- Retreat to the Delaware, 1776-1777 -- Morristown and Brandywine, 1777 -- Valley Forge, 1777-1778 -- Philadelphia and Middlebrook, New Jersey, 1778-1779 -- The hard winter: Morristown, 1779-1780 -- Home and headquarters, 1780-1781 -- Victory on the York and private grief, 1781 -- Uncertainty and disaffection, 1781-1783 -- Peace on the Hudson, 1783 -- Book three: After the war, 1784-1802 -- Mount Vernon, 1784-1786 -- Conventions and elections, 1787-1789 -- New York houses, 1789-1790 -- Market Street, Philadelphia, 1790-1793 -- Second term, 1793-1797 -- Retirement, 1797-1798 -- The death of a president, 1799 -- Dissolution, 1799-1802.

The Washingtons long union begins in colonial Virginia in 1759, when George Washington woos and weds Martha Dandridge Parke Custis, a pretty, charming, and very rich young widow. The calm early years of their marriage as plantation owners at Mount Vernon and as parents to Martha s two children, Jacky and Patsy both of whom present difficult challenges yield to harsher times. Washington has been prominent among Virginians in opposing British government measures, and at the outbreak of fighting in 1775 he is elected commander-in-chief of the Continental army. The war sees Martha resolutely supporting her husband, sharing in the hardships at Valley Forge and other wretched winter headquarters. Essential to George s personal well-being, she is known as Lady Washington a redoubtable and vastly admired figure in her own right. This book is a remarkable story of a remarkable pair as well as a gripping narrative of the birth of a nation.

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