GEORGE WASHINGTON 1732-1799

Born in 1732 in Wakefield, Virginia, was a farm kid, George Washington inherited a large estate parcel at the age of twenty-seven years. From the year 1753-1758 Washington went into the army, took an active part in the French army opposed to Indian wars, and gained much experience and praise. He returned to Virginia late in 1758, and took retirement. Soon after he married Martha Dandridge Custis widow with two children wealthy. (He himself had never had children).

Washington in the next fifteen years managing the plantation with a neat management. In 1774, when he was elected representative of Virginia attended the First Continental Congress, he was the richest man in the American colonies. Washington is not the first to call for independence, but in the month of June 1775 in the second Continental Congress (which he also became vice-Virginia), he was elected commander of the army throughout the Continental. Military experience, his wealth and reputation, pieces of his body (muscular height 1.9 m), administratomya talent and - above all - the establishment and nature of the firm, supported so as to occupy that position. Throughout the battle done without reward money and gave examples of selfless devotion.

The successful completion of Washington's most prominent about the year 1775 when he led the Continental army and in the month of March 1797 when her presidency that the two ends. He breathed his last at his home in Mount Vernon, Virginia, in December 1799.The key position is crucial in order to establish a United States departed from the three kinds of roles he played.First, he was a successful military leader in the war of American independence. True, Washington was not a military genius, is not more prominent than Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar. But, keep in mind, while many American commanders suffered heavy defeats, Washington (although it also suffered some minor losses) are still able to continue the battle and carrying the banner of victory.Second, Washington became chairman of the constitutional convention. Despite Washington's ideas does not play a determining role in the American constitution, but his encouragement, his good name, so when determining the endorsement. At that time there challenges to the new constitution, and that without the influence of Washington it was difficult to accept the constitution.Third, Washington is the first Republican president of the United States. The United States really deserve to feel lucky to have the first president to have a great weight and force of character. Just take a look and compare it with so many examples of countries in Latin America and Africa that although the base was established through a democratic constitution, but very quickly drop back to military dictatorship. While Washington to firmly maintain the republic of disunity without the accompaniment of constant ambition to power. He was not going to be a king or dictator. She was the one who instilled the need to rule the transfer of power from one hand to another through peaceful means. This rule is still practiced in the United States today.George Washington is not a pure and sharp thinker as well as other American leaders of his day such as Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin. However, he is more superior than all of them. You see, Washington - either at war or at peace - always give a donation in the form of strength of character in the leadership of the government, that without him there would be no political measures that work. Madison shares a role in the establishment of the Republic of the United States is important, but in this connection what Washington was almost as important and decisive.George Washington's inclusion in the list order this book largely depends on the historical assessment of the establishment of a Republican United States. Impartial determination regarding the significance of the founding of the United States certainly would not be done by an American living today. Although the U.S. mid-20th century to hold a position of military superiority and political influence is even greater than what was once owned by the Roman Empire at its peak, but his political power does not last long as the Romans. Instead, it was obvious that some technological advances that have achieved the United States are considered by the sense of other cultures and other times. The discovery of the aircraft - for example - and the human landing on the moon has to realize the dream of times past and it seems inconceivable that the invention of nuclear weapons can be proved.Because George Washington an American political figure who can generally be attributed to Augustus Caesar of Rome, it seems worth putting Washington's position in the list is almost adjacent to Augustus. If Washington is placed further down, this is solely because of his tenure is shorter than the reign of Augustus, and as many characters (such as Thomas Jefferson and James Madision) also plays an important role in the establishment of the Republic of the United States. However, the position of the order of George Washington is higher than figures like Alexander the Great and Napoleon as the work of Washington and the successes he had done so have a range of further implications and sustainable.