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 ...

History | October 2019. When Young George Washington Started a War. A just-discovered eyewitness account provides startling new evidence about who fired the shot that sparked the French and Indian War ...

1. George Washington’s military career began with the French and Indian War. This portrait of George Washington by Charles Willson Peale depicts what Washington would have looked like in his ...

General and President George ... But Washington could be brutal, too. As a lieutenant colonel in the Virginia Regiment in 1754, he fired the first shot in what would become the French and Indian ...

There, he would meet with French troops "to see if he could stop the French and Indian War," Cohen said. Washington had been tasked with delivering a letter from Virginia Gov. Robert Dinwiddie ...

George Washington First president of the United States: 1789-1797 General and commander in chief, Continental Army: 1775-1783 After his service in the French and Indian War, Washington ...

A central figure is George Washington, ... Greene, the Academy-Award nominated actor for "Dances With Wolves" and an Oneida Indian whose ancestors fought in the French and Indian War.

Archaeological investigation finds musket balls at Fort Necessity battlefield in Fayette County 00:48. The site of the first skirmish of the seven-year-long French and Indian War has been verified ...

The French and Indian War's 1755 Battle of Lake George will be re-enacted Sept. 22-24, 2023, in a free event featuring 250 costumed interpreters of history. Provided by Behan Communications ...

George Washington, at age 21, was dispatched on a 500-mile journey to the French fort that once stood at present-day Waterford by Virginia Gov. Robert Dinwiddie in October 1753.