George Washington, American general and commander in chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution and subsequently first president of the United States.

The papers of army officer and first U.S. president George Washington (1732-1799) held in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress constitute the largest collection of original Washington papers in the world. They consist of approximately 65,000 items accumulated by Washington between 1745 and 1799, including correspondence, diaries, and financial and military records.

The Mount Vernon Ladies Association maintains the home and estate of George Washington. Includes lots of great resources on all aspects of Washington's life.

In 1777, George Washington faced a losing war. Then he created America's first espionage operation.

There may be no two contemporaries in American military history who are remembered more differently than George Washington and Benedict Arnold. Historian Nathaniel Philbrick talks about how the relationship between these two changed during the war.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the first President of the US, George Washington, and the people and ideas that caused the American Revolution.

This lecture focuses on George Washington and the combined qualities that made him a key figure in Revolutionary America, arguing that the most crucial reason for his success as a national leader was that he proved repeatedly that he could be trusted with power - a vital quality in a nation fearful of the collapse of republican governance at the hands of a tyrant.