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Washington reluctantly becomes commander in chief in 1775
On a muggy June day two centuries ago George Washington hesitated to command a continental army. Despite urging from John Adams and others, he preferred his Virginia plantation and feared the boundless duties. He eventually accepted, departed for Massachusetts, and led American forces from Cambridge as war began.
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Washington
George Washington
Virginia
Philadelphia
Andrew Lewis
Artemas Ward
John Hancock
Ward
New England
Boston
Iand
Concord
Hancock
Congress
John Adams
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Adams
Massachusetts
Parliament
George Washington, Esq
United Colonies
Bunker Hill
Cambridge
Britain
National Geographic Society
Wqed-Tv
Pittsburgh
Carnegie- Mellon University
North America
Mount Vernon
House of Burgesses
Williamsburg