George Washington’s Military Experience and how it Benefited the Nation

George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, Westmoreland County, Virginia and Washington served as a general and commander-in-chief of the colonial armies during the American Revolution, and later became the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. He died on December 14, 1799, in Mount Vernon, Virginia. George Washington was a man of high prestige for most of his life and when he became the president a lot of his experience had already been formed from working as a military general so he had a lot of general knowledge about leading large groups of people and here are a few examples on how is military experience helped the nation.

My first example of this is the time he spent leading the continental army during the revolutionary war. Although his knowledge in leading the military was severely lacking he learned a skill that would greatly benefit him on the rest of his journey of life and this skill was learning on the job. Now, most people probably think that this is not a helpful skill due to all of George Washington’s failures and mishaps but his determination and natural intuition kept his team and his cause afloat until he could figure out a winning strategy. This concept benefited the nation because when George Washington became the president he didn’t know what he was doing but while working to keep the nation from falling into chaos and disarray but he kept an eye out to find people that had the intelligence to handle the situations he could not ,so he hired people such as the secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton, the secretary of state Thomas Jefferson, secretary of war Henry Knox, and one of his principal advisors James Madison.

Another example is that George Washington always kept a level of civility while working in office as the president because he had helped fight the wars to rid the nation of a tyrannical monarch and give them freedom so he didn’t want to put them in the same exact situation so he was always level headed and never made an irrational choice out of anger or other emotions but instead always thought of how it would affect the people of the country and assured them that he would exercise extensive executive authority without corruption. George Washington’s integrity was in most ways honorable and reputable, for example, Thomas Jefferson once wrote, “”his justice the most inflexible I have ever known, no motive of interest or consanguinity, friendship, or hatred, being able to bias his decision. Washington set a standard for presidential integrity rarely met by his successors, although he established an ideal by which they all are judged.””(1). George Washington’s presidency lasted two terms but sadly George longed to go home permanently by the first term he stayed because his cabinet members had convinced him that he was the only one that could command respect from the two parties that were quickly arising and soon after Thomas Jefferson visited him in Mount Vernon and urged him back into his second term. George cared about his family and wanted to stay with them but his heart pulled him back to the office because he cared about the nation he worked so hard to build.

In conclusion, George Washington’s military experience aided him in furthering the nations democratic freedom and helped him keep the country from falling apart while he gathered people to stand alongside him and help in the areas he could not.

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