History of the United States I / Unit 4 USH1 0484 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Washington at Fort Necessity
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The idea
George Washington, a twenty-two-year-old Virginian surveyor, ordered troops to fire on French soldiers in May seventeen fifty-four near Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
In practice
Fort Necessity, hastily built, and the site of his surrender that same year.
Where people slip
General Edward Braddock was sent in seventeen fifty-five with fifteen hundred men and was killed in an ambush.
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