Go behind the scenes at George Washington's beautiful and historic Mount Vernon estate in northern Virginia. Learn about how the estate is preserved by experts to resemble the year 1799, and how the grounds are as much a reflection of Washington himself.
A federal navy was one of the contributing factors to our formation of a union. A nation’s strength must be sufficient to secure a seat at the victor’s table, only there is future prosperity determined.
Thank you, George Washington for all the sacrifices you made for America, it is a shame that you are forgotten. America is over, but thank you for 2 hundred good years
He do Be Freedoming The Man Incredible History Amazing Effort Sad Inefficient Waste of Comfort I Hope He was Virtuous when He did It Fairly Questionable Context Fairly Harder to Respect But He did Dress Good Great Presentation Good Work
Really alotta Obvious Reasons in Context Make’s Perfect Sense Sad loss of Lineage However This did Coincidentally Remove even more Potential Holier than Thou Wannabe American Prophets Trying to Supersucceed Him One of George Washington’s Greatest Achievements Is Being The First American The Holy Icon no other Contemporary Dictator can overtake if Used Correctly This Historically Is a very Underappreciated and Necessary Use of Him Ofcourse He Isn’t Absolutely Perfect Alotta Great Lessons about Idealism and Truthful Inefficiency There And The Immaculate Lessons in Teaching The Ideal Medium of The Great American But It’s also an Incredible Weapon against Uppity Leaders by how none can Be Better than The Best Man Serving America long after Death
"resisting British acts" is a crazy way to say they were wild eyed mobs who burned people's houses down and assaulted representatives of the Crown. Sons of Liberty were terrorists.
The Federalists, led by Secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton, wanted a strong central government, while the Anti-Federalists, led by Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, advocated states' rights instead of centralized power.
Always knew theough common sense that Washington's family was British..why? The US was young, the first pilgrims to the US were protestant Christian Britons ( some perhaps protestant Christian Dutch) , and obviously Washington was the very first president in US history. ( Although it seems that his ancestors were not a part of the British pilgrims )
These "necessaries " or out houses would sometimes use wood ash and/or straw sprinkled onto after each use. This controlled odor and help facilitate composting. Chamber pots used indoors at night (under bed or in a toilet box) would be filled with water before bed and a handful of wood ash from the hearth/fireplace stirred in to control odor during the night. Next morning the chamber pot was emptied into the outdoor "necessary". A separate smaller chamber pot was used for urine as it was collected to make ammonia for laundry (removal of stains on white linens) Days long before chlorine bleach.
I've been looking into Tobias Lear. I'm either directly or indirectly related to him, and trying to connect him to my direct ancestor William Earle Lear.
Outside kitchen is pretty normal around the world for the wealthy doesn’t matter in what century. Btw, in many cultures, kitchens are always separate from the main house.
I think entertainment events like "Hamilton" was/is, we can get the younger generations to understand where we came from as a country. I as an adult was even reminded of some of the people, events and their great significance.
Candles in those days were made mostly of rendered animal tallow from hard suet fat around the kidneys of cattle. Bee's wax and to lesser extent bayberry wax candles were reserved for church service and special occasions like Christmas. Tallow candles did not burn clean or smelled good and tallow melted faster than the wick where as other wax fuels melted at same rate as wicks. About every 10-15 minutes or so a wick trimmer was used otherwise black soot would drop onto white table cloths and float around room ending up on surfaces. The candle wick trimmers look like a pair of scissors with a little box on one side of blades. The box was to collect the trimmed charred wicks and snuff the flame and the blade cut the wick. The tip of blade was heated in flame and applied to wax/ tallow puddle to facilitate the excess wax/tallow to flow down to be collected and reused. A feature on some candle suffer trimmers is a circular opening between base of blades and the finger loops.. This was to fit the circumference of candle to scrape the wax drippings. Little was wasted in those days!
Much of your report is wrong about General Washington. I grew up at Mount Vernon grounds. My ancestors came to "The New World" in the 1600s and early 1700s and owned the lands adjacent to Mount Vernon. I have studied, researched and loved the General all my life -- more than 60 years. Washington was a stalwart gentleman of impeccable integrity, wisdom, and kindness. First, he never had improprieties with women. He had smallpox in his teens and was impotent therefrom all his life. Sally Fairfax was a neighboring friend who taught him elegant social graces, but the two were never romantically engaged nor active. Since when is flirting a romantic declaration of permanent intent! It is critical to incorporate the language and practices of the times when interpreting historic documents and treasures. Also, George and Martha Washington loved each other. They were deeply devoted to the Godly mission of establishing a new nation consecrated in freedom. She traveled by carriage from Mount Vernon and stayed with him and his men through the harsh winter at Valley Forge, tending to ill soldiers and knitting socks for those with nothing on their feet who literally bled in the snow. No woman does that unless she is devoted to her husband and his mission. Slavery was the common practice in the 18th century and many of our finest founding fathers freed their slaves and in so doing, resolved to the financial ruin of their families and homes. Let's be honest: Colonists and Europeans did not invade Africa and capture Africans for slaves. African tribes IN Africa sold fellow slaves to European tradesmen who sold the Africans who had been defeated by fellow tribes. The entire practice of the African wars and the winners selling the losers was evil and entirely disgraceful. Not unlike the current practice in America of Illegals invading our nation and bringing sex slavery, murder weapons and drugs. Clean up our current culture before you attack those who fought for your freedom in earlier years. The USA was literally established by men and women of higher standards, moral principles and a focus on high principles like justice, freedom of speech and kindness which we must get back and reconsecrate in America if an honorable society is to survive! We must teach basics, math, science, how to actually read and write, philosophy, real, documented history and the lives of great men and women to our children and eliminate the dangerous anti-God teachings of willfulness, sex changes, communism and other lies if our children are to be happy and successful. Teach the truth, and not the nonsense you included for drama in your u-tube. We have historic documents, documented records, artifacts, family Bibles, other rock solid evidence that these were stalwart, humble, self-sacrificing, commanding leaders who gave all so today, the USA would offer freedom for every citizen to create and succeed limited only by their own vision, faith, and willingness to think and work hard. May the Lord help us to restore those original values for the sake of reestablishing a good and honorable nation of Liberty so all can succeed!
