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Years later, he wrote that his life was in as “much jeopardy as it ever had been before or since.” Washington was pursuing a ...
Before he led a revolution, George Washington sparked one. This video explores how a young officer’s ambush in the Ohio Valley helped ignite a global conflict—the Seven Years' War. Known in North ...
Hidden away in the hills of Fayette County, Jumonville Glen is where the first shots of the French and Indian War were fired. A group of colonial militia, led by a 22-year-old lieutenant colonel ...
Description. American History professor David Narrett lectures about the events leading up to the beginning of the French and Indian War. Bell Ringer Assignment ...
A scene depicting a battle, possibly during the French and Indian War, was found in the walls of a 18th-century home in East Hartford. Marc-Yves Regis I / Special to the Courant ...
By the time he was 20, he was already a captain in William Byrd’s Virginia regiment during the French and Indian War. Following that war, Christian moved to Hanover to study law under Patrick Henry.
This week (Feb. 10) in 1763, France and Great Britain signed the Treaty of Paris, thereby ending the French and Indian War (sometimes called the Seven Years War). At first ...