13h 50min, jul 3, 1754 y - George Washington's Battle at Fort Necessity
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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.
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13h 50min, jul 3, 1754 y
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