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proposed by his friend and fellow



                                                                                                                                         political figure George Mason.




                                                                                                                                         In July 1774, George Washington



                                                                                                                                         chaired a meeting where the Fairfax



                                                                                                                                         Resolves were adopted, which called




                                                                                                                                         for a Continental Congress to be



                                                                                                                                         held. He was also made the Virginian




            to express his disagreement with                                                                                             delegate to the first Continental



            the British Stamp Act, the first tax                                                                                         Congress.



            policy that was implemented to the                                                                                           The first shots of  the revolutionary




            colonials without their agreement.                                                                                           war happened in 1775 at Lexington



            Afterwards, he also advocated the                                                                                            and Concord, after which George




            boycott of  British goods because of                                                                                         Washington was called on from the



            the Townshend Act, which was first                                                                                           Congress to lead the American army
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