He knew the incalculable value of courage.

His experiences with the British regulars and their officers left a deep impression on him and colored his own decisions in his campaigns against the British during the Revolutionary War.

To genius nothing comes amiss, and by genius nothing is forgotten.

So we find that all that Washington saw and learned during his years of youth--his apprenticeship as surveyor, his vicissitudes as pioneer, tasks as Indian fighter and as companion of the defeated Braddock--all contributed to fit him for the supreme work for which Fate had created him and the ages had waited..