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A skirmish early in George Washington’s military career helped define him. It could have killed him
For the rest of his life, George Washington would remember the chaos and tragedy of November 12, 1758. At 26, he was the colonel commanding the Virginia Regiment, a British subject fighting for his ...
A 22-year-old George Washington's 1754 military mission in Pennsylvania sparked the French and Indian War. Washington's inexperience led to a controversial skirmish known as the Jumonville affair, ...
New evidence helps resolve enduring mysteries about a 1758 incident that nearly cost the future president his life—and shaped his views on the battles yet to come As a 26-year-old colonel, Washington ...
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