The Hero of Two Worlds Who Crossed an Ocean for Liberty It was not that long ago. Only a little more than a decade before the American Revolution began in earnest, a young George Washington had fought against the French as a British colonial officer in the French and Indian War (1754–1763). Washington had seen French soldiers as the enemy on the frontier. Yet history turned with astonishing speed. In 1777, a nineteen-year-old French aristocrat named Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roc

Through God's Providence, a young George Washington miraculously survived the Battle of the Monongahela. In the summer of 1755, a 23-year-old colonial officer named George Washington rode into the deadly chaos of the Battle of the Monongahela. British General Edward Braddock’s forces were ambushed by French and Native American warriors in the dense Pennsylvania wilderness. Officers fell all around him. Two horses were shot out from under Washington. Four bullets tore through

Photo Courtesy of Angel.com Young Washington (2026), directed by Jon Erwin and released by Angel Studios on July 3, 2026, is a great visual of the founding of this great nation that we citizens call home—a nation that people from all over the world have flocked to since its inception. The film offers a compelling look into the intense, challenging journey of a boy who loses his father early on and grows up on the harsh new frontier of the early English colonies. It’s the adve

Picture the frozen Delaware River on Christmas night, 1776. A howling nor’easter drives ice and sleet across the black water. Oars creak against the current as Durham boats grind through floes. At the prow of the lead boat stands a towering figure in a blue cloak, tricorn pulled low, jaw set against the gale. George Washington, forty-four years old, stares toward the New Jersey shore where Hessian mercenaries sleep in warm barracks.