"In 1754, a 22-year-old Washington marched into the wilderness surrounding Pittsburgh with more ambition than sense. He volunteered to travel to the Ohio Valley on a mission to deliver a letter from Robert Dinwiddie, governor of Virginia, to the commander of French troops in the Ohio territory. This military mission sparked an international war, cost him his first command and taught him lessons that would shape the American Revolution."
"As a professor of early American history who has written two books on the American Revolution, I've learned that Washington's time spent in the Fort Duquesne area taught him valuable lessons about frontier warfare, international diplomacy and personal resilience. The mission to expel the French In 1753, Dinwiddie decided to expel French fur trappers and military forces from the strategic confluence of three mighty waterways that crisscrossed the interior of the continent: the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio rivers."
In 1753 Virginia governor Robert Dinwiddie ordered the removal of French trappers and troops from the strategic confluence of the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio rivers. King George II authorized force to secure lands Virginia claimed. A 22-year-old Major George Washington volunteered to deliver Dinwiddie's demand to the French, believing the mission could earn a British commission. Washington traveled to Fort Le Boeuf and returned with a polite but firm refusal. The 1754 expedition escalated into the wider French and Indian War, cost Washington his first command and provided hard lessons in frontier warfare, international diplomacy and personal resilience.
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