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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