George Washington, Ft. Necessity & Braddock's Defeat | Mapping History | Colonial America | colonies

What was the French and Indian War?
What is the Seven Years War?
What was Fort Necessity?
Who was Braddock?

The French and Indian War, also known as the Seven Years War, is often misunderstood,. This conflict, in which George Washington played a major hand, determined the fate of North America.

Washington was 21 when he set out in 1753 to notify the French at Fort Le Beouf near Lake Erie that they were trespassing on British land.

Virginia Governor Robert Dinwiddie sent Washington out a second time to the Forks of the Ohio in 1754 to assist the Ohio Company. Washington is at the trading past Will's Creek (Cumberland, Maryland). He learns that the French have secured the Ohio River fork, but he presses on. He builds Fort Necessity in the Great Meadows.

Washington is involved in a skirmish at Jumonville Glen. The diplomat de Jumonville is killed. The French and native Americans strike back. Washington surrenders at Fort Necessity.

The next year in 1755 Washington sets out with General Braddock to take Fort Duquesne at the confluence of the Ohio, Monongahela, and Allegheny Rivers. The British redcoats and militia are attacked near Fort Duquesne on July 9, 1755. Ojibwa (Chippewa), Ottawa, Shawnee, other Great Lakes native americans, and French Canadians defeat the British. Iroquois and Algonquian nations are involved on both sides, but most support France.

Finally in 1758 Washington is able to take Fort Duquesne while in General Forbes command. The British build Fort Pitt. Ft. Pitt becomes modern day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Washington is an important figure in the British colonies, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and America in general.

Music Credits:

"Trickle of Water" by Underbelly & Ty Mayer

"Bach Cello Suite no. 1, G Major" performed by Cooper Cannell

"Ghost Town" by Quincas Moreira

Film by Jeffrey Meyer
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