National Heroes

When George Washington was born at the seldom visited and almost unknown Wakefield Farm in Virginia, the Indians had scarcely left the woods near his home.  As a youth, although bred in an environment of luxury and ease and refinement, he often chose the rugged life of hunters and Indians, climbing mountains, fording streams and fighting forest storms.  While still a young man, he led the Virginian troops against the French and later, in the War for Independence, he served as Commander-in-Chief...