3 JULY 1775: George Washington assumes command of the Continental Army. Years earlier at the end of the French & Indian War, Washington, a Virginia Militiaman, had requested, but was rejected for a commission in the British Army. Sometimes the thing you think you want most is the last thing you and others need you to receive! Providence is always wisest!<\/p>\n
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3 JULY 1775: George Washington assumes command of the Continental Army. Years earlier at the end of the French & Indian War, Washington, a Virginia Militiaman, had requested, but was rejected for a commission in the British Army. Sometimes the thing you think you want most is the last thing you and others need you … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117677,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117676\/revisions\/117677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}