George Washington has led his men to a resounding victory over the French in the first official battle of the French and Indian War. It was a battle that was not intended to take place, and one that took a shockingly dark turn upon its completion.
The Virginia Militia had dealt a quick and decisive blow to New France’s expansion into the British claimed Ohio Country, leaving a dozen French-Canadian troops slain, and the rest eager to surrender.
It was however Washington’s indigenous accomplice in the assault, the Half King, the Mingo Chief, Tanacharison, whose actions would stoke the fires of war between two great empirical powers.
As the gun fire ceased, and the Colonials drew near, the Half King would approach the French commanding officer Joseph Coulon de Jumonville, viciously assassinating him, execution-style, with repeated blows to the skull before he was ritualistically mutilated.
The ghastly scene left an indelible impression on French-Canadian and Colonial British troops alike. Colonel George Washington was now faced with an unenviable task, to fall back to the Great Meadows where they had been stationed and build a fortification that could withstand the vengeful onslaught that was coming down upon them from the collective French and Indian forces of the area.
This bulwark would come to be known as Fort Necessity, and it is here that Washington would face the greatest trial of his young life.
The question was, would the young Colonel Washington and his men be up to the task?
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