![]() When Washington and his roughly one hundred and fifty men arrived at Wills Creek (present-day Cumberland, Maryland) in April 1754, they learned that 1,000 French soldiers under the command of Captain Claude-Pierre Pécaudy, sieur de Contrecœur had overrun the scant force of British already working at the Forks. After raising and equipping his force in Alexandria, Washington was to proceed with an advance portion of the regiment and aid Captain William Trent in establishing a fort at the Forks of the Ohio, where the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers converge. 2 In response, Dinwiddie ordered the newly raised Virginia Regiment under Colonel Joshua Fry to the frontier. ![]() 1 After a three month journey, Washington reported to Dinwiddie that the French had no intention of departing the Ohio and were in fact adding troops to the region. In October, following reports of the French constructing forts in the region, Virginia Lieutenant Governor Robert Dinwiddie dispatched Washington with a request for French withdrawal. The attack represented to opening salvoes of the French and Indian War.īy 1753, the upper Ohio River Valley became an increasing source of friction between French and British imperial ambitions. On Virginia Regiment Lieutenant Colonel George Washington and Mingo chief Tanacharison led a party of roughly forty men in a raid against twenty-nine French soldiers in present-day western Pennsylvania killing ten and capturing twenty-one. ![]()
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