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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