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George Washington

1732–1799

George Washington commanded the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. His leadership helped hold together an often underfunded army, while his voluntary resignation of military command and later transfer of presidential power established important precedents.

Washington was also a wealthy Virginia planter who enslaved more than a hundred people, a central fact in assessing his public commitment to liberty. George Washington was born in Westmoreland County and died in Mount Vernon.

Robert Harvey’s A Few Bloody Noses follows George Washington’s struggle to preserve the Continental Army, British campaigns under Thomas Gage, William Howe and Charles Cornwallis, the turning point at Saratoga and the expansion of the conflict into an international war. Nathaniel Philbrick’s Bunker Hill culminates on 17 June 1775, when inexperienced New England soldiers defend improvised works on Breed’s Hill against repeated British assaults. Joseph Warren, William Howe, Paul Revere and George Washington emerge as complicated participants rather than fixed patriotic symbols. Historical accounts that place George Washington in context include Hourly History’s Culper Spy Ring, Nathaniel Philbrick’s In the Hurricane’s Eye, Gore Vidal’s Inventing a Nation, Robert Harvey’s Mavericks, and Captivating History’s The American Revolution.

Periods

Periods linked to George Washington

American Revolutionary War1775–1783 CE Philadelphia Campaign1777–1778 CE

Series

Historical novels and book series featuring George Washington (12 series)

Outlander in Order

by Diana Gabaldon 9 books 4.6(525,677)

The Outlander series follows twentieth-century physician Claire Randall after she travels through time to eighteenth-century Scotland and forms a life with Highlander Jamie Fraser. The novels move through the Jacobite rising, its aftermath, the Caribbean, colonial North America and the American Revolution, combining family saga, historical adventure, romance…

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The American Revolutionary War in Order

by Jeff Shaara 2 books 4.3(14,148)

Jeff Shaara’s two-volume American Revolution sequence follows the colonies from the Boston Massacre and political resistance of the early 1770s through the British surrender at Yorktown. Rise to Rebellion concentrates on the transformation of lawyers, merchants and provincial leaders into revolutionaries; The Glorious Cause follows the Continental Army…

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Women of History in Order

by Nancy Moser 4 books 4.5(1,551)

Women of History presents fictionalised first-person or close biographical portraits of four real women whose achievements were constrained by family, gender and public expectation: Maria Anna Mozart, Jane Austen, Martha Washington and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The novels draw on documented events while imaginatively reconstructing private conversations, emotions and…

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George Washington in Order

by various authors 3 books 4.6(1,343)

The George Washington trilogy follows the American Revolution through three moments when the independence movement could still have failed. Beginning with the desperate winter campaign of 1776, it moves through the deprivation and political strain of Valley Forge before concluding with the Franco-American victory at Yorktown. George Washington…

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Birds of Prey Sequence in Order

by various authors 10 books 4.4(76,119)

The extended Birds of Prey sequence follows successive Courtney generations from the Second Anglo-Dutch War and the Indian Ocean trading world through the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, the Napoleonic era and the rise of the Zulu kingdom. Its ten books connect maritime commerce, piracy, colonial…

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Richard Bolitho in Order

by Alexander Kent 28 books 4.5(44,733)

The Richard Bolitho novels follow a Cornish Royal Navy officer from his years as a midshipman in 1772 through the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and the War of 1812. Richard rises from junior officer to admiral while the series examines command, discipline, loyalty…

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The Culper Ring in Order

by Roseanna M. White 3 books 4.7(678)

The Culper Ring series traces a fictional family legacy of espionage across three American conflicts: the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812 and the Civil War. Secret correspondence, divided loyalties and inherited codes connect generations of spies who must decide what they are prepared to sacrifice for country,…

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Seeds of America in Order

by Laurie Halse Anderson 3 books 4.2(90,965)

The Seeds of America trilogy follows Isabel and Curzon, two young people fighting enslavement while Britain’s North American colonies fight for independence. Beginning in New York in 1776, continuing through Saratoga and the Valley Forge encampment, and ending at Yorktown in 1781, the novels connect their search for…

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Morland Dynasty in Order

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 36 books 4.4(27,265)

The Morland Dynasty is a thirty-six-book family saga tracing the fictional Morlands of Yorkshire from 1434 to the approach of the Second World War. Beginning with the marriage of Robert Morland and Eleanor, a ward of the Beaufort family, the sequence follows successive generations as Morland Place grows…

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The Kent Family Chronicles in Order

by John Jakes 8 books 4.2(89,573)

The Kent Family Chronicles trace successive generations of one family from the eve of the American Revolution to the early 1890s. The saga begins with Phillipe Charboneau, the unrecognised son of an English duke, who becomes Philip Kent in America, and follows his descendants as they build, lose…

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The New World Saga in Order

by Tim Holden 3 books 4.3(354)

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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Daughters of the Mayflower in Order

by Kimberley Woodhouse 12 books 4.4(5,882)

The Daughters of the Mayflower follows successive generations of one extended American family from the voyage of 1620 to the closing decades of the nineteenth century. Written by several historical-romance authors, the sequence moves through colonial settlement, imperial war, revolution, westward migration, the War of 1812, the Texas…

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Standalone books

Standalone books featuring George Washington (11 books)

Non Fiction

Non Fiction featuring George Washington (14 books)

Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.