We know that the American colonies won their independence. We know that George Washington commanded the army that secured it. We know that the struggling confederation of former colonies would eventually become the United States of America, and that Washington would become its first president. George Washington knew none of these things. The correspondence collected in this volume offers something that conventional histories cannot quite reproduce: the experience of the American Revolution as it unfolded, written by a man who could not know what tomorrow would bring.
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