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This Historic Portrait of George Washington Is Being Restored to Its Former Glory
In 1779, the American artist Charles Willson Peale painted a portrait of George Washington, depicting the president after an ...
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President George Washington: Calm, Cool, and Collected Commander in Chief
That famous description of George Washington by his friend and fellow ... Photograph by POPPERFOTO/GETTY IMAGES Thomas Paine was an admirer of Washington and spent the desperate autumn of 1776 ...