Allan Nevins
Contributor
Historian. Senior Research Associate, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California, 1958β 69. Dewitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University, 1931β58. Author of The American States During and After the Revolution; The Emergence of Modern America; and many biographies.
Primary Contributions (1)
George Washington was an American general and commander in chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution (1775β83) and subsequently first president of the United States (1789β97). Washingtonβs father, Augustine Washington, had gone to school in England, tasted seafaring life, and thenβ¦
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