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This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories,

and we tell stories about everything here on this show,

including your stories. Send them to Our American Stories.com they're some of our favorites and

our favorite storytelling here on the crew are stories about American history and

they're so important if we don't know who we were how do we know who we are and

this next story is a history story as always always, brought to us by the great folks

at Hillsdale College, where you can go to learn all the things that are good in life and all the

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In 1777, George Washington pushed back against General Cornwallis in Princeton, New Jersey,

gaining a small victory for the Colonials.

Here to bring you the story is Dr. Larry Arne, president of Hillsdale College. And here's our own

Monty Montgomery, a Hillsdale grad himself to help tell the story.

George Washington was a beautiful man, according to many in the founding era. Here's Dr. Larry P.

Arne, president of Hillsdale College, with more on that,

and this all-important man of the revolution.

Abigail Adams, when she met him, she wrote to her husband, I had been told that he was handsome,

but I did not know the half.

So he was very striking.

He was unusually tall for those age.

He was probably six foot three.

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