From 1754 to 1763, Britain and France were locked in a bitter, bloody struggle for control of North America. The conflict, which spread across the globe, could be considered the first world war.
And George Washington started it.
Washington’s Revolution: The Making of America’s First Leader, by Robert Middlekauff (Knopf, 384 pp., $30)
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Mr. Bishop is a consultant at the National Endowment for the Humanities, a board member of the Abraham Lincoln Institute, and the former executive director of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and of the International Churchill Society.
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