GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -George Washington commanded the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783).

Detailed explanation-2: -Washington served as a delegate to the First Continental Congress in 1774 in Philadelphia. By the time the Second Continental Congress convened a year later, the American Revolution had begun in earnest, and Washington was named commander in chief of the Continental Army.

Detailed explanation-3: -The American Revolution-also called the U.S. War of Independence-was the insurrection fought between 1775 and 1783 through which 13 of Great Britain’s North American colonies threw off British rule to establish the sovereign United States of America, founded with the Declaration of Independence in 1776.