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To: Fiji Hill
Washington's men got in a firefight with a French unit and sent them scurrying back to Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh).

Not exactly. Washington picked a truly horrible site for a fort and was soon forced to surrender. He then signed an admission that he had killed a French diplomat, which was of course in French, so he probably didn't realize what he had agreed to.

George's career did not start off with promise.

84 posted on 09/03/2013 6:39:49 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Mark Steyn: "In the Middle East, the enemy of our enemy is also our enemy.")
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To: Sherman Logan

You’re thinking of the Battle of Fort Necessity, which took place in July, 1754, about a month after the Jumonville Affair. Fort Necessity is a few miles southeast of Jumonville, along Rte. 40. And it is, indeed, a horrible site for a fort.


85 posted on 09/03/2013 7:17:51 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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