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, 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 things that are beautiful in life. And if you can't get to Hillsdale,

Hillsdale will come to you with their free and terrific. Online courses go to Hillsdale.edu.

That's hillsdale.edu. 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. And then he was very striking. He was unusually tall for those age.

He was probably 6'3 foot 3.

And then he was a tremendous horseman.

He just awesome.

He could ride his horse into and through a battle without using his hands.

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