1. He is credited with teaching the Continental Army the essentials of military drill and discipline, helping to guide it to victory.

2. It only awaits a "Continental Army" of new winter patriots, willing to sacrifice just a little to defend American democracy so much.

3. The inexperienced Continental Army was defeated on Long Island, Manhattan, and at White Plains, New York.

4. As the first rebel victory of the Revolutionary War, the Battle of Fort Ticonderoga served as a morale booster and provided key artillery for the Continental Army in that first year of war.

5. When the Second Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia in May 1775, Washington, one of the Virginia delegates, was elected Commander in Chief of the Continental Army.

6. In July 1776 the troops were assigned to the main Continental Army and in the months that followed they joined Stirling's Brigade.

7. The poll done for the college looked at how much the public knows about Washington and found that 46 percent knew that Washington led the Continental Army during the American Revolution.

8. It was dedicated in 1917 and remembers the "patience and fidelity" of the Continental Army soldiers who spent the winter of 1777 there, according to the National Park Service.

9. In 1783, General George Washington resigned his Commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army to the Congress, consolidating the democratic principle of civil control over military forces.

10. George Washington was a Virginia planter, commander of the Continental army, and first president of the United States.

11. The committee met with George Washington(/continental army.html), head of the American Continental Army.

12. He hoped to become commander in chief of the Continental Army, but George Washington was selected instead.

13. One day in 1777, with things looking bleak for the Continental army, the 21-year-old colonel learned that a mutiny was in the works and ordered a midnight inspection.

14. Washington had already been a star general in the Revolution, commander in chief of Continental Army.

15. John Adams, the major figure in the Continental Congress, and George Washington, the commander in chief of the Continental Army, are the chief players in this unusual story.