You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington

by Alexis Coe

To pigeonhole him as a military leader is to underestimate how much the fledgling government needed Washington as a diplomat and political strategist.

At times, the crown had made peace treaties with the Indians that curtailed westward expansion, and the colonists saw themselves as the victims. In an attempt to reassure them, and with the full support of Congress, Washington undertook a campaign of genocide against the Six Nations, the northeast Iroquois confederacy.