Der Gantz Neue Verbesserte Nord-Americanische Calendar has a personification of Fame holding a trumpet to her lips juxtaposed with an image of Washington and the words "Der Landes Vater" ("the father of the country" or "the father of the land").[496]

^ In Portraits & Biographical Sketches of the United States Army's Senior Officer,[502] William Gardner Bell states that Washington was recalled to military service from his retirement in 1798, and "Congress passed legislation that would have made him General of the Armies of the United States, but his services were not required in the field, and the appointment was not made until the Bicentennial in 1976 when it was bestowed posthumously as a commemorative honor."In 1976, President Gerald Ford specified that Washington would "rank first among all officers of the Army, past and present".[503]

Citations

^ Ferling 2009, p. 274; Taylor 2016, pp. 395, 494.

