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How a 22-year-old George Washington learned how to lead, from a series of mistakes in the Pennsylvania wilderness

  • Written by Christopher Magra, Professor of American History, University of Tennessee
How a 22-year-old George Washington learned how to lead, from a series of mistakes in the Pennsylvania wildernessA young George Washington was thrust into the dense, contested wilderness of the Ohio River Valley as a land surveyor for real estate development companies in Virginia.Henry Hintermeister/Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

This Presidents Day, I’ve been thinking about George Washington − not at his finest hour, but possibly at his...

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