The first known woman to impersonate a man in the U.S. Army, Deborah served as a soldier during the American Revolution. Born in Plympton, Massachusetts on December 17, 1760 to Jonathan and Deborah Bradford Sampson, she was the oldest of seven children. While still a...
A major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War, Greene was the son of a Quaker farmer, also named Nathanael, and Mary Mott. One of nine children, he was born at Warwick, Rhode Island, on August 7, 1742. Though his father’s sect, called the...
The presidency of George Washington began on April 30, 1789, when Washington was inaugurated as the first President of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1797. Washington took office after the 1788–89 presidential election, the nation’s first quadrennial...
