Gorge Washington
Dinwiddie
Dinwiddie
Robert Dinwiddie, British lieutenant governor of Virginia ... Virginia militia to deliver a message to the French, warning them to leave Virginia territory. ... Washington's map of the Ohio River and surrounding region containing notes on ....French forces in the Ohio valley also continued to intrigue with Indians ...
He Sent him to the Ohio valley to fight the French.
21 years old
He was a mesenger to the royal governor, Lord Dinwiddie. He was to take word to the French in the Ohio River Valley that they were trespassing on land claimed by the English. The French told Washington that they would hold the land at all costs.
Governor Dinwiddie sent a young George Washington to warn the French to leave the Ohio River Valley in 1754. Washington, then a lieutenant colonel in the Virginia militia, delivered the message but faced resistance from the French, which ultimately contributed to the outbreak of the French and Indian War. His mission marked one of the early military engagements in the conflict between British and French colonial interests in North America.
George Washington
George Washington
He was a mesenger to the royal governor, Lord Dinwiddie. He was to take word to the French in the Ohio River Valley that they were trespassing on land claimed by the English. The French told Washington that they would hold the land at all costs.
He was a mesenger to the royal governor, Lord Dinwiddie. He was to take word to the French in the Ohio River Valley that they were trespassing on land claimed by the English. The French told Washington that they would hold the land at all costs.
Washington was a major in the Virginia militia when he was sent to tell the French to leave the Ohio River Valley.