Author:George Washington
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[edit]Revolutionary War
[edit]- Acceptence of Command of the Continental Army (1775)
- February 26, 1776 General Orders
- July 9, 1776 General Orders
- On Maintaining an Army (24 September 1776)
- Announcing the attack on Trenton (25 December 1776)
- Letter to Col. John Cadwalader (25 December 1776)
- Letter to Col. John Cadwalader at 6 P.M. (25 December 1776, 6 P.M.)
- A Circular Letter from his Excellency George Washington (18 June 1783)
- Resignation as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army (23 December 1783)
- Statement before delivering response to the first Newburgh Address (March 15, 1783)
Inaugural Addresses
[edit]- First Inaugural Address (30 April 1789)
- Second Inaugural Address (4 March 1793)
State of the Union Addresses
[edit]- First State of the Union Address (8 January 1790)
- Second State of the Union Address (8 December 1790)
- Third State of the Union Address (25 October 1791)
- Fourth State of the Union Address (6 November 1792)
- Fifth State of the Union Address (3 December 1793)
- Sixth State of the Union Address (19 November 1794)
- Seventh State of the Union Address (8 December 1795)
- Eighth State of the Union Address (7 December 1796)
Messages to Congress
[edit]- Message to the Senate of June 11, 1789 - Regarding the Convention with France of 1788
- Message to the Senate of September 17, 1789 - Regarding Treaties with Native Americans
- Message to the Senate of January 11, 1790 - Regarding the Treaty of 1790 with the Creeks
- Message to the Senate of August 4, 1790 - Regarding the Treaty of 1790 with the Creeks
- Message to the Senate of August 6, 1790 - Regarding the Treaty of 1790 with the Creeks
- Message to the Senate of August 7, 1790 - Regarding the Treaty of 1790 with the Creeks
- Message to the Senate of August 11, 1790 - Regarding the Treaty of 1790 with the Creeks
- Message to the Senate of January 17, 1791 - Transmitting a Letter from the King of France
- Message to the Senate of January 19, 1791 - Transmitting a Report of Secretary of State Jefferson Regarding Commerce with France
- Message to the Senate of January 11, 1792 - Transmitting a Report of the Secretary of State Concerning Spain
- Message to the Senate of March 7, 1792 - Transmitting a Report by the Secretary of State Regarding a Treaty with Spain
- Message to the Senate of February 26, 1796 - Regarding the Treaty of 1795 with Spain
- Message to the House of March 30, 1796 - Regarding Documents Relative to the Jay Treaty
- Message to the Senate of March 31, 1796 - Regarding the Jay Treaty
Vetos
[edit]- Veto of the Apportionment Bill (1792)
- Veto of A Bill to alter and amend an Act entitled "An Act to ascertain and fix the military establishment of the United States" (1797)
Other Works
[edit]- Proclamations
- Journal of George Washington (1760)
- Newburgh letter (22 March 1782)
- Letter to Colonel Nichola (1782)
- Newburgh address (15 March 1783)
- To the Reformed German Congregation of New York (27 November 1783)
- Letter to John Jay - August 15, 1786
- National Thanksgiving Proclamation (1789)
- Letter to Touro Synagogue / To the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island (1790)
- Proclamation of Neutrality (22 April 1793)
- George Washington's correspondence with Joseph Whipple (1796)
- Washington's Farewell Address (1796)
- The Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation
- Circular to the States
- Letter to Rev. William Gordon, July 8, 1783, on the subject of the nature of the Union
- Last Will and Testament
- George Washington's Remarks (autobiographical notes about the French and Indian War)
- Letter requesting dental pincers
- Letter to Charles Carter, 1794 regarding his niece and an outstanding debt
Editions
[edit]- The Writings of George Washington (1834–1840) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
Works about Washington
[edit]- "George Washington as Diarist" (1926), an essay by Stuart Pratt Sherman
- The Father of His Country, funeral oration by Henry Lee III (1799)
- "Washington, George," by Edward Everett in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
- "Washington, George," by Alexander Johnston in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (24) (1888)
- "Washington" (poem), originally in Swedish by Johan Olof Wallin (1837), translated by Ernst W. Olson (1900)
- Chapter 14 of David H. Montgomery's The Beginner's American History (1904)
- "Washington, George," by William Peterfield Trent in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
- "Washington, George," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
- "Washington, George," by William MacDonald in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "George Washington" by Robert C. Winthrop in The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1914 (1914)
- "Washington, George," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
- "Washington, George," by Claude Halstead Van Tyne in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Washington, George," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
- Public Law 94-479, October 11, 1976, and Orders 31-3
Proclamations
[edit]- Proclamation 4900 by Ronald Reagan, February 22, 1982
- Proclamation 7260 by Bill Clinton, December 13, 1999
- Proclamation 8106 by George W. Bush, February 16, 2007
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