THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR CAUSES EFFECTS SUMMARY
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George Washington
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George Braddock
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George Goebbele
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George of the Forest
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Detailed explanation-1: -A company of provincial troops from Virginia under the command of Lieutenant Colonel George Washington, and a small number of Mingo warriors led by the chieftain Tanacharison (also known as the “Half King"), ambushed a force of 35 Canadiens under the command of Joseph Coulon de Jumonville.
Detailed explanation-2: -George Washington, who had been a part of two failed efforts to take Fort Duquesne, commanded the Virginia militia forces attached to Brig. Gen. John Forbes’s expedition against the French stronghold at the Forks of the Ohio River from 1757-1758.
Detailed explanation-3: -Washington continued his service as a colonel in the Virginia provincial Militia, resigning his commission in 1758. He then served in the Virginia House of Burgesses and the Continental Congress.
Detailed explanation-4: -On the night of May 27, 1754, Lt. Col. George Washington led a party of Virginia soldiers out of an encampment in the Ohio Valley. The conditions were horrid-a night “as black as pitch, ” as the young commander recorded in his journal.