THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR CAUSES EFFECTS SUMMARY
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
In anticipation of a French attack.
|
|
|
To trick the French into attacking them.
|
|
|
To prevent the British from attacking them.
|
|
|
As revenge against the French for colonizing the Ohio Valley
|
Detailed explanation-1: -Washington returned to Great Meadows and in the following weeks readied for battle. Fearing that the French and Indians would attack in retribution for his earlier attack on them, he pushed his men to complete the small, palisaded fort called Fort Necessity and deepen the trenches that radiated out from the fort.
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 the morning of July 4, 1754, Colonel George Washington marched his wounded and battle weary men out of the flimsy, wooden, palisaded circular defensive structure named Fort Necessity.
Detailed explanation-4: -Battle of Fort Necessity, also called the Battle of the Great Meadows, (3 July 1754), one of the earliest skirmishes of the French and Indian War and the only battle George Washington ever surrendered.
Detailed explanation-5: -The French burned Fort Necessity and afterwards returned to Fort Duquesne. The following year Washington joined another British expedition to the Forks of the Ohio under the command of General Edward Braddock. Part of a series of articles titled French and Indian War-The Contest for the Ohio River Valley .