As winter sets in, Washington urges the disenchanted to remember the cause of liberty and devotion to their country.

News of Benedict Arnold’s success in Canada reaches Washington while Congress authorizes the establishment of the Continental Marines.

Col. Arnold and Gen. Schuyler led Continental soldiers in Canada while Washington digs in at Boston for the winter.

As Washington waits out the British in the Siege of Boston, he authorizes more troops to join Col. Benedict Arnold’s invasion of Canada.

In his diary, Washington details his visits to and the work of his plantations.

Washington recounts the Siege of Yorktown and Lord Cornwallis’s subsequent surrender in October 1781.

In his diary, General Washington describes his Native American allies and the capturing of a spying French force.

Detailed is the life at Mount Vernon and General Washington’s desire to return to simplicity after the Revolutionary War.

An account of Porte Crayon’s visit to the Natural Bridge in Virginia.

This century-old pamphlet fundraised for the “enlarging opportunities of the future” while celebrating the patriotism and religion of university history.

Upon hearing of Washington’s intent to donate his James River Company stock to a Virginian university, William Graham writes on behalf of Liberty Hall Academy.