While Washington certainly ordered mass immunizations to protect his troops from smallpox, the above-displayed meme states that Washington ordered "vaccinations," and that isn't completely accurate.

On a trip to Barbados in his late teens, George Washington caught one of the luckiest breaks of his life: Smallpox. It probably didn’t seem like good fortune just then. It was a deadly disease ...

George Washington confronted a smallpox epidemic with a belief in science—and a controversial plan. George Washington strikes a confident pose after the victorious Battle of Princeton in this ...

And then there’s George Washington ... who was preparing to marry, Washington congratulated him and then compared marriage to smallpox or the plague because it is something “a man can have ...

But those critics have their own detractors. "George Washington mandated smallpox vaccines for the Continental Army," reads the text of an image that’s being shared on social media with an ...

(NEWSER) – "I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation," the National Archives quote George Washington ... In his lifetime, Washington bested smallpox, malaria ...

But lesser known is George Washington's bold decision to vaccinate the entire Continental Army against smallpox. It was the first mass inoculation in military history, and was vital to ensuring an ...

George Washington mandated inoculation against smallpox, believing one’s freedom does not mean others should suffer as a consequence. According to the Library of Congress, in presented in an ...

Author Andrew Wehrman described why George Washington initially disagreed with smallpox inoculation. The American Revolution Institute in Washington, D.C, hosted this event.