Statistics for occurrence #1 of “George Washington” in chapter 5 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition.:
... person of distinction to the commander of the French forces on the Ohio River, to know his reasons for invading the British dominions, while a solid peace subsisted.
The envoy whom he selected was George Washington .
The young man, then just twenty-one, a pupil of the wilderness, and as heroic as La Salle, entered with alacrity on the perilous winter's journey from Williamsburg to the streams of Lake Erie.
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