USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -After the skirmish with Jumonville’s forces, Washington feared “we might be attacked by considerable forces.” He undertook to fortify his position at the Great Meadows . During the last two days of May and the first three days of June, he built a circular palisaded fort, which he called Fort Necessity.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hoping to defend against an imminent attack by French soldiers, a young George Washington built a fort of necessity in a natural meadow in present-day Pennsylvania. Fort Necessity was the site of the first battle of the French and Indian War.

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: -At Fort Necessity, the provision hut was depleted, and there was little shelter from the heavy rain that started to fall on the 2nd. With the rain, the trenches that Washington had ordered to be dug had turned into streams.

Detailed explanation-5: -Fort Necessity was a small stockade in western Pennsylvania built by Virginia Militia led by George Washington in 1754. Beginning in the 1740s both England and France had merchants engaged in the fur trade with American Indians peoples in the Ohio Country.