Pope's Creek Plantation Analysis

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I grew up on Pope’s Creek plantation, with my father Augustine Washington and my mother Marry Washington. The plantation is located on a never-ending creek. The water was staunch, and home to an abundance of wild life. I lived in a typical farm house, a one-story frame building rooms on ground floor, attic, and two large chimneys on each side of the house. I had a total of eight siblings including my half-brothers, two of the eight died in birth. My father schooled me at home for a while. Then at the age 11 my father was relieved from his life’s labors. After his death, I attended formal education in Virginia. There I learned from my professor Mr. Williams geography and surveying, by the age of 12 I was a strong writer and a decent surveyor. …show more content…

On October 30, 1753 at age 21 I left Williamsburg with men and small amount of supplies. When voyaged through wild treacherous terrain. Recent storms of rain and snow had swollen the rivers requiring the horses to swim across. Once we got cross there were a native tribe. I decided to establish friendly contact with the Native leader, so i visited Dschinghis half king of the Delaware’s Dschinghis. After we talked for a couple hours, Dschinghis gave me some knowledge on the French, this edification came to be very useful. I took this information back to Dinwiddie promoted me to Lieutenant Colonel. Then I received my first mission as a Lieutenant Colonel; my mission was to depose the French from Fort Duquesne. However, the restive French army defeated. That moment was the beginning of the French and Indian War, as the war progressed I was later promoted to Colonel. My rank was colonel but my position was Commander in Chief of all of Virginia. As commander, I fought alongside Great Britain to defeat the French. The war is over, finally tranquility in the