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Historical person
1718–1752
Lawrence Washington was a Virginia planter, colonial officer and elder half-brother of George Washington. He served in the expedition against Cartagena de Indias, named his estate Mount Vernon after Admiral Edward Vernon and helped introduce the young George Washington to influential military and political networks.
In Tim Holden’s Rule Britannia, Lawrence Washington is determined to improve his standing in a colonial society governed by land, family influence and imperial patronage. In Tim Holden’s Rivers Run Deep, Fifteen-year-old George Washington is still defined by the achievements of his elder brother Lawrence, but surveying, land speculation and service to influential patrons begin to draw him towards the western frontier.
Series
The New World Saga follows the Washington family and a wider cast of soldiers, traders, settlers, Indigenous diplomats, servants and political agents through the imperial wars that reshaped eighteenth-century North America. It begins with Lawrence Washington’s service in the War of Jenkins’ Ear, then turns to the young…
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