Statistics for occurrence #1 of “George Washington” in entry washingtoniana of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:
...ch post, with a letter demanding explanations, and the release and indemnification of the English traders whom the French had robbed and imprisoned.
He chose for this delicate and hazardous service George Washington , then not twenty-two years of age. With three attendants, Washington left Williamsburg, Oct. 31, and, after journeying more than 400 miles (more than half the distance through a dark wilderness), enc...
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