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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

George Washington's Mount Vernon estate is placing a newly acquired document on display that shows Washington's awareness of medical advances to help halt the spread of smallpox among his troops.

Gen. George Washington — later the first president of the United States — did pretty much the same thing during the Revolutionary War on Jan. 6, 1777. Smallpox was raging across North America ...

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 ...

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 ...