George Washington's World

Genevieve Foster

ISBN: 978064380349

The Exciting Story of People, Events and Ideas from 1732 to 1799

Scientists, Doctors and Inventors such as Franklin (electricity), Lavoisier (modern chemistry), Watt (steam engine), Whitney (cotton gin), Dr. Jenner (smallpox vaccination), Slater (manufacturing) and more!

Authors, Poets, Painters and Musicians such as Bach, Voltaire, Thomas Paine, Phillis Wheatley, Benjamin West, Mozart, Hokusai, Benjamin Banneker, Vigee Le Brun and Goethe.

Voyages and Expeditions by Cook to Australia, Anson to the Pacific, Portola and Junipero Serra to California.

Discoveries such as Pompeii and the Rosetta stone.

Important Events such as the writing of the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution, the creation of the Constitution, the French Revolution and many, many more.

Kings, Queens and Leaders such as Empress Catherine the Great of Russia, George III of England, Emperor Qianlong of China, Frederick the Great of Prussia, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette of France, Sultan Mustafa III of the Ottoman Empire, Toussaint l'.Ouverrure of Haiti and the young Napoleon to name just a few.

Many American Contemporaries of Washington such as Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Boone, John Hancock, Pontiac, John and Abigail Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Haym Solomon, Casimir Pulaski, James Madison and others!