USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Tanacharison attempted to convince the Lenape, Shawnee and the Mingo Indians to join the Virginians at Great Meadows. With about 150 Virginians at Great Meadows, they began to construct a fort, which Washington named Fort Necessity. The fort was completed on June 3.

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: -Fortification and Reinforcements 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. In early June, Washington learned that Col.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

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.