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This trail is a driving route through western Pennsylvania. Traversing modern highways, the route commemorates young George Washington’s first military and diplomatic venture in the fall and winter 1753-1754. Today, the route primarily follows major roads.
Dec 21, 2020 · Great Britain was determined to respond to France’s military expansion into the Ohio River Valley in 1754. The year’s attempt to capture and build a fort at the Forks of the Ohio River, where the Ohio, Monongahela, and Allegheny Rivers meet (present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), had failed miserably as young Colonel George Washington was ...
May 7, 2021 · Departing Williamsburg, Virginia in early December 1753, Washington and his traveling companion Christopher Gist, an experienced frontiersman and guide, traversed Western Virginia and Western Maryland before reaching “the forks of the Ohio” at modern-day Pittsburgh.
Aug 8, 2024 · During the French and Indian War, George Washington was a colonel in the provincial Virginia Regiment. He ambushed French troops under Jumonville and led soldiers at Fort Necessity, in Braddock's Expedition, and the Forbes Expedition.
The British first erected a temporary stockade called Mercer's Fort, then began construction of a large, modern fort, named Fort Pitt, beside the ruins of Fort Duquesne. General Forbes named the new settlement Pittsborough, and the village was chartered a year later.
Jan 24, 2019 · This month, the Bridgeville Area Historical Society’s workshop series on George Washington’s impact on Western Pennsylvania focused on his well-documented expedition to the Ohio Country in 1770. The Washington who made this trip was much different from the swashbuckling military hero who visited this area four times in the 1750s.
Fort Pitt, completed in 1762, was the largest English fort built in America. During it's thirty-seven year history as an active fortification, it saw service in many ways. It was a safe haven for settlers during Pontiac's Uprising and a staging ground for the Frontier Wars of the 1780s.
