13 St. 50 Min, 3 Jul 1754 Jahr - George Washington's Battle at Fort Necessity

Beschreibung:

That same month George Washington, newly commissioned as a lieutenant colonel, started westward from Alexandria with part of a newly recruited regiment of Virginians. They were to build a road to the Monongahela River at Redstone Creek, present day Brownsville, Pennsylvania. He was then to help defend the English fort on the Ohio.

He got into a fight with the french and lost to their forces. George Washington surrenders to the French who beat him at Fort Necessity. This is George's only surrender in his career.