George Washington and Troops Patriotic Postcard

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This postcard from 1907 shows George Washington taking command of his Army at the beginning of the Revolutionary War and then saying farewell to his troops on the right at the end of the war.

When the Second Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia in May 1775, George Washington, one of the Virginia delegates, was elected Commander in Chief of the Continental Army. On July 3, 1775, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, he took command of his troops, most of whom were simple farmers. Thus they embarked upon a war that was to last six grueling years and end with freedom and the establishment of the United States of America as an independent nation.

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