Turnback Tuesday celebrates George Washington’s birthday of Feb. 22, 1732 with a postcard (above) the Derby Public Library has in its collection.
It shows Washington after the Continental Congress commissioned him as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army on June 19, 1775. After leading the army through six long years of war, Washington issued his farewell to his officers at Fraunces Tavern in New York on Dec. 4, 1783.
He then traveled to Annapolis, Maryland to officially resign his commission on Dec. 23, 1783.
Washington returned to his Mount Vernon estate to live out his days as a gentleman farmer.
Thanks goes to the Derby Public Library staff for sharing interesting history each week.
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