CSI

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CSI

• 2-22-1732

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Do you know this person?

• Owned more than 13,000 hectares (33,000 acres)
  distributed over several states.
• Lived in New York City and Philadelphia during a
  period of time in his life.
• Born in Virginia.
• Rejected a movement among army officers to make
  him king of the United States.
• Refused to wear a powdered wig, which was high
  fashion in the late 1700s. Instead, he powdered
  his red-brown hair and tied it in a short braid
  down his back.

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Did you know?

• Carried a portable sundial.
• The six white horses in his stables had their
  teeth brushed every morning.
• Loved to help fight fires.
• Favorite sports were fishing and fox hunting.
• Face was scarred from smallpox.
• Wore size thirteen boots.

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Significant Acts

• Issued a proclamation of neutrality in 1793 that
  kept the United States out of the French
  Revolutionary Wars.
• Put down the Whiskey Rebellion, a 1794 tax revolt
  in Pennsylvania, by summoning the militia of
  several states.

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More Significant Acts

• Laid the cornerstone for the U.S. Capitol
  building in the District of Columbia.
• Prevented another war with Great Britain through
  an unpopular treaty negotiated by Chief Justice
  John Jay in 1794.

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Career

• 1749 Served as surveyor for Culpeper County,
  Virginia.
• 1755 Became Commander in Chief of Virginia
  forces.
• 1758 Elected to the House of Burgesses, the
  legislative assembly of Virginia.
• 1774 Served as a Virginia delegate to the First
  Continental Congress.
• 1775-1783 Led the Continental Army in the
  American War of Independence.
• 1787 Served as President of the Constitutional
  Convention.
• The first man in American history to be a
  Lieutenant General.

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Need more clues?

• 1789-1797 President of the United States.
• Hes looking down at you right now?
• Still not sure.??

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The Last and Final Clue

• He was the Father of our Country
• the first President of the United States?

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General George Washington prepares to Crossthe
Delaware to New Jersey with several Sojourners
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