He wasn't "elected". He had a uniform made, went to Congress, and told them they needed him.
Washington was the leader of the Continental Army.
The Second Continental Congress named George Washington as supreme commander of the Continental Army on June 15, 1775.
George Washington was a General of the Continental Army in the 18th century, the Continental Congress later elected George Washington as the Commander-In-Chief. Making him "General George Washington Commander-In-Chief of the Continental Army" he held this position through most of the American Revolution.
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George Washington was given command of the Continental Army by the Second Continental Congress.
The colonists' army was officially known as the Continental Army, and its leader was George Washington. Washington, after the war, served as the nation's first president.
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Washington was forty-three.
The General of the Continental Army, George Washington.
General George Washington led the Continental Army and the states' militias in the war against England.
George Washington was given command of the Continental Army on June 15, 1775.Other leaders in the Revolutionary War included Nathaniel Greene, Horatio Gates, George Rogers Clark, Henry Knox, Daniel Morgan, John Sullivan, Anthony Wayne, and Benedict Arnold. From France came the Marquis de Lafayette and from Prussia, Baron Friedrich von Steuben. Another foreign leader was Colonel Tadeusz Kościuszko of Poland.(see related link)
He was the leader of the Continental armies..General of the army.