USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Washington took his place as colonel. A few days later, 100 British regulars under the command of James Mackay arrived, but, instead of making camp with the Virginians, they camped separately outside the fort.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.