Matilde perez biography of george washington
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People/Characters George Washington
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When Jesus Maria Perez was born on 27 October 1880, in Ures, Sonora, Mexico, his father, Jesús Feliz Pérez Valenzuela, was 38 and his mother, Maria Francisca Rosa Montaño, was 33. He married Anita Bracamonte Perez on 17 April 1910, in Ures, Sonora, Mexico. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in El Centro, Imperial, California, United States in 1939 and Westmorland, Imperial, California, United States in 1940. He died about 1960, in California, United States, at the age of 81.
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George Washington's Colored Soldiers - 1932
Written by
Mary Church Terrell
1615 S St. N.W
Washington, D.C.
[1932]
George Washington’s Colored Soldiers:
Hundreds of colored soldiers fought in the Revolutionary War. For several reasons, however, comparatively little is known about the valuable service they rendered. As a general rule, they fought side by side with white soldiers, and not in separate companies. The credit for the deeds of valor they performed, therefore, has gone to the military units to which they belonged, rather than to the race with which they were identified.
On the 5th of March 1776 when George Washington repaired to the entrenchment, he thus appealed to the patriotism of his soldiers: “ Remember it is the 5th of March, and avenge the deaths of your brethren.”
If you had happened to be in Boston on the 5th of March 1770 walking down King Street (now known as State Street) you would have witnessed the incident to which George Washington referred. You wou