USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The battle at Fort Necessity in the summer of 1754 was the opening action of the French and Indian War. This war was a clash of British, French and American Indian cultures. It ended with the removal of French power from North America. The stage was set for the American Revolution.

Detailed explanation-2: -Washington built Fort Necessity on an alpine meadow west of the summit of a pass through the Laurel Highlands of the Allegheny Mountains.

Detailed explanation-3: -On June 4, 1754, during the Seven Years’ War, a 22-year-old lieutenant colonel in the Virginia militia named George Washington begins construction of a makeshift Fort Necessity.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Fort Necessity Story The confrontation at Fort Necessity in the summer of 1754 was the prelude to the war fought by England and France for control of the North American continent. The struggle was known in North America as the French and Indian War and spread around the world as the Seven Years’ War.

Detailed explanation-5: -Fort Necessity National Battlefield is located 11 miles east of Uniontown Pennsylvania and 1 mile west of Farmington, PA along The National Road (US Route 40). The main unit of the park is located 11 miles east of Uniontown, Pennsylvania on U.S. Highway 40.