Incredibly, in his first military adventure, the totally untrained soldier led an attack on a French force near the Ohio River, killing a French ambassador. Thus began the French and Indian WarThat little tidbit was never taught in US History 'back in the day'. Even though we did study the French and Indian War and Revolution -- and for sure about George Washington and all our Founders.
I only found out by watching the History Channel.
Washington was NOT a “totally untrained soldier”, he was a Captain in the Virginia Colonial Army!
WE WERE taught about this in school in Virginia where I grew up. The territory was officially part of Virginia and the French had been encroaching into it and fomenting unrest among the Indians against the English. That was the reason for Washington and his men being sent in.
How long ago was that? You had never heard of Fort Necessity?