The first resolution declaring American Independence was passed in
Fredericksburg, April 27th, 1775, twenty-one days before the next earlier.
Seven presidents and three of the greatest military leaders was born at
Fredericksburg or within a short distance.
It was John Paul Jones, a Fredericksburg man, who raised the first flag
over our infant navy, in 1775.
At Fredericksburg and within fifteen miles, more great armies manoeuvered,
more great battles were fought, more men were engaged in mortal combat and
more officers and privates were killed and wounded than in any similar
territory in the world.
The tallest and most imposing monument erected to a woman is erected at
Fredericksburg to the memory of Mary Washington.
James Monroe, for many years a citizen of Fredericksburg, announced the
American principal known as the Monroe Doctrine.
James Madison, born near Fredericksburg, gave to the country the
Constitution of the United States.
It was Fredericksburg that gave to the country the head of the Armies in
the Great War for Independence and the first president, in the person of
the peerless Washington.