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PLEASE HELP MEEE !!! Why do you think Washington accepted the commission as commander in-chief of the American army? Why do you think the Continental Congress chose him?

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Speaking before a meeting of that body soon after the Boston Tea Party, after the British closed the port of Boston Washington asserted: "I will raise one thousand men, subsist them at my own expense and march myself at their head to the relief of Boston. On April 18, 1775.

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