Culpeper County, Virginia, In 1753 is when George Washington was given the rank of major and he was to assess the strength of the French at the Ohio County Valley.
In 1754 George Washington received a commission as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Virginia Regiment.
George Washington was starting to become successful because, he successfully attacked the French camp near present Jumonville, when George Washington won he built Fort Necessity he was then forced to surrender it. In 1755 there was a battle called the Battle of the Monongahela, serving under general Braddock the troops were ambushed and defeated by the French and the Indians. In 1758, Forbes expedition successfully droving the French away from Fort Duquesne. Failed to secure a commission as a British officer and turned to working as a planter and a politician. In 1759 George Washington married wealthy widow Mrs. Martha Dandridge Custis.
In 1769 George Mason writes resolutions presented by George Washington to the Virginia House of Burgesses, opposing taxation without representation. In 1774 George Washington was an elected delegate to the continental congress. By the year of 1775 Washington owned 6,500 acres at Mount Vernon with over 100 slaves also April 19, shots fired at Lexington weapons depot destroyed. June 15, appointed general and commander-in-chief of the new Continental
Army. In 1783, Washington addressed congress on December 23 in Annapolis and resigned his commission. Washington then gave the power back to the people and was declared a hero around the world. In 1787 although determined to retire from public life after the revolutionary war, Washington enters the public sphere and is unanimously elected president of what is now known as the Constitutional Convention. In 1789 George Washington is unanimously elected president of the United States. In 1793 Washington finally begins his second term as president, in 1797 he refuses the third term, Washington retired from the presidency and all public life. By leaving office after two terms, Washington set a precedent that has been held to by most of the American presidents who followed him. He returns to Mount Vernon and enjoys a peaceful retirement. Between the years of 1759 and 1775 George Washington was gentleman farmer at Mount Vernon in the years between his marriage to Martha and the onset of the American revolution. Washington experimented with different farming techniques while also expanding his home at Mount Vernon. Washington then went on to live a happy life with himself and his family as a retired citizen.