An epic
tale of remarkable feats
Did NOT
start with an axe in a cherry tree
Rather,
it began in a Virginian Plantation
Prosperous
and proud, in the middle of a future nation
His father
was a sheriff who fathered five sons
But the
glory of fame would go only to one
A lanky
young lad, he was shy and reserved
But he
was stopped from attaining the love he deserved
For a
sad event shattered the plans he had
They
were cut short by the tragic death of his dad.
His
plans were crushed to travel abroad
But
young Washington found a father in Lawrence, his brother in law
Sadly
his surrogate father did not stay
While
soldiering, Lawrence found tuberclosis coming his way
While
visiting his deathbed, smallpox gave Washington a scar
But this
made him immune to the revolutionary wars greatest killer by far
A grown
man now, the state governor Dinwiddie
Had given
Washington an army job quickly
Now a major, he became a
surveyor to The family of Fairfax
Whose undying
support enabled him to pay every tax
He surveyed the Ohio River Valley, where no Brit had
gone before
He met
the French, who were suspicious, and they were right to be so
Ordered
by Dinwiddie to fight for the new land
Washington
ambushed the French and the 7 year war began
French
and Indians fought side by side
And
clouds of gunpowder blackened the sky
Promoted
to Colonel, Washington was now calling the shots
But by
Fort Necessity, he was in for a loss
The
French mercilessly stormed the fort, and historians have wrote
Washington
escaped with two bullets in his coat
A British
general arrived by the name of Braddock, who back home was the master of war
But he
was surprised by these hide-in-tree tactics which he had never seen before
The
Indians had the advantage, with no contest
And
Braddock was felled with a bullet to the chest
But with
amazing perseverance, Great Britain finally won
And
France was (not literally) pushed off America by the butt of a gun
But the
lessons Washington learned from this war were so great
That
they helped make him the legend he is to this date