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Born into a family on the margins of the virginiaaristocracy, Washington advanced rapidly to local prominence owing to his brother lawrence-massachusetts'sbrief career in the British military establishment and to Lawrence's marriage into the powerful fairfax-virginiafamily. Ambitious and intelligent, though lacking formal education, Washington obtained the office of regional militia adjutant, the assignment of warning the French in the Ohio Valley to depart from lands claimed by Virginia, and afterward the position of special aide to Gen.

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