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Hidden : 8/16/2007
Difficulty:
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Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

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Geocache Description:

FTF goes to retiredprof on August 17, 2007


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AB CD.EFG
HIJ KL.MNO

A - 3
B - 9
C - On April 3 _, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States.
D - Finally in 178_ with the aid of French allies--he forced the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown.
E - Died: December 14, 1_99 in Mount Vernon, Virginia
F -Married to Martha {A=1/O=0}_andridge Washington
G - To his disappointment, _ _ _ parties were developing by the end of his first term.
H - 1
I - 2
J - 1
K - Washington enjoyed less than three years of retirement at Mount Vernon, for he died of a throat infection December _4, 1799.
L -But he soon realized that the Nation under its Articles of Confederation was not functioning well, so he became a prime mover in the steps leading to the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia in 1_87.
M - At 16 he helped survey Shenandoah lands for Thomas, Lord Fairfax. Commissioned a {A=1/O=0} li_utenant colonel in 1754, he fought the first skirmishes of what grew into the French and Indian War.
N - On July 3, 1775, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, he took command of his ill-trained troops and embarked upon a war that was to last _ _ _ grueling years. {This minus four.}
O - When the French Revolution led to a major war between {A=0/O=0} _rance and England, Washington refused to accept entirely the recommendations of either his Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who was pro-French, or his Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, who was pro-British. Rather, he insisted upon a neutral course until the United States could grow stronger.

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A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)