: Known for his "devotion to civic virtue," Washington maintained troop morale during devastating winters, such as at Valley Forge , and through strategic retreats that kept the cause alive.
: After leading colonial forces to victory over Great Britain, he presided over the Constitutional Convention and was unanimously elected as the first President of the United States in 1789. Political Architects and Agitators
While Washington led on the battlefield, these leaders organized the ideological and political resistance against British rule. George Washington and the Revolutionary War
General George Washington led the American army to victory during the Revolutionary War. George Washington's Mount Vernon