George Washington's final years

Respect history, learn from history, don't change history and never erase it.

There would not be a United States, if not for Washington.

He spoke at two intervals before dying. The first, "I die hard, but I am not afraid to go." The second and last when the thought he might be buried while still alive made him stress to the doctor he not be interred for three days. "Do you understand?" The doctor said he did, which brought his last words, "'Tis well."

He had a rough life, between the Indian Wars and the Revolution. He spent 20 years outdoors suffering.

I have the newspaper that announced his death and funeral in December, 1799, which includes a diagram of the Masonic Brothers who surrounded his casket. It's a fascinating piece of history.

We should be grateful for George Washington and his vision of America. They were really brilliant with what they did to create the United States of America.

I love Mount Vernon and lived near it for decades.

I don’t blame him for still being in love with sally. Who can really ever forget their first love?

From U.K. In the centre of London in Trafalgar Square stands a statue of George Washington. On a hill overlooking my home town of Rotherham Yorkshire stands Boston Castle. This was built during the revolutionary war, to commentate the Boston Tea Party. Founding Father Thomas Payne visited Rotherham after the war. The support for the colonists and Patriot politics here in England is now almost forgotten.

The father of the United States Of America George Washington R.I.P.

"Although he was just 66 years old"??? That was ancient back in the 1700's so I would have expected him to be plagued with health issues.

Great Leaders are human. Humans all have a story to tell.

George Washington's views in slavery changed after the Revolution. He wanted pass anti-slavery legislation, but was afraid doing so would divide the country. He voiced to several witnesses his growing disgust with slavery, but repeatedly refused abolishionist petitions against slavery. Finally he wrote in his will that he wanted all his slaves to be freed upon Martha's death and for then to be "adequately supplied for their own free lives." Martha freed all his slaves a year after George's death, but some stayed because they didn't want to be separated from their family members still in slavery or they stayed near Martha. Until the 1830's, according to George's will, funds were secured to continue to feed, clothe and give medicine to his former slaves.

Thank you for the history lesson. 🙋‍♀️

Washington's doctors drained half his blood when all he had was a throat infection. The story of his actual death and the quackery medical care he received is fascinating. Bleeding was common at the time, doctors were dangerous.

George Washington fought in the revolutionary war and was the first president But his last words was tis well What a badass

Wow, the things we take for granted.. medication for a sore throat. And, President Washington will never be forgotten.

It’s always good to see there heroes and legends become humanized. He never really stopped loving someone even though he was a married man and contradicted his own words with actions. Very human traits.

George Washington was the only man absolutely indispensable to the Revolution. A truly great person and a Giant among giants.

What so many people forget or don't actually know, men like Washington and Jefferson could not, by very specific and strict laws in Virginia, set their slaves free while they lived. Jefferson campaigned bitterly against these laws to no effect. The only way legal and without severe penalties either men could set their slaves free was to do so through their wills upon their deaths.