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Andrew Governor Corbett, Tom Harrisburg, PA 17120 PA Harrisburg, o administered by the the by administered a dmission charged. dmission W and the Commonwealth’s vast indus Commonwealth’s the and battleground War Civil American otal Revolutionary and colonial eras,piv a the experience, American Native the time, geologic of dawn the examining exhibits With heritage. fascinating state’s the interpreting collections sive offers expan Pennsylvania of Museum State The Harrisburg, in Capitol State Pennsylvania the to Adjacent e A tem lt The fort garrisoned as as garrisoned fort The S H y ’ S o S FF i C ive i A S l m en u F S eum e ® D e H 06/13 t - - - After Braddock’s disaster the British felt the the felt British the disaster Braddock’s After the of east fort British largest the was Augusta Fort When this news reached Great Britain General General Britain Great reached news this When Susquehanna Valley would be the strategic center of the the of center strategic the be would Valley Susquehanna along forts of series a constructed and confict upcoming these of Most Mountain. Blue the of side eastern the safe as serving homes fortifed simple than more no were on gristmill, Hunter’s Samuel settlers. local for havens rally a as served Harrisburg near River Susquehanna the October Creek, Penns at attack Indian an after point ing of command the to transferred was Hunter Fort 1755. 16, and 1756, April, in Regiment Augusta Clapham’s Colonel Fort Creek. Fishing of mouth the at built was fort new a Fort for depots supply as served Halifax Fort and Hunter Augusta. long feet 200 over walls earthen with Mountains Allegheny fortifcations. wooden by topped maintained fort the war the During troops. 400 as many set sheltered and River Susquehanna the along patrols took confict main the However, raids. Indian during tlers never was Augusta Fort and Valley Ohio the in place engagement. military a in involved French and Indians led by Jumonville’s older brother. Rain Rain brother. older Jumonville’s by led Indians and French forcing failed, powder gun the and Necessity Fort flled Washington to surrender. troops 2100 with Valley Ohio the into marched Braddock to destroy Fort Duquesne. Eight miles from their objec 1755 9, July on attacked were troops Braddock’s tive, Indians. and French of force aggressive but small a by casualties. 800 over suffered British the hours fve Within routed was army his and wounded mortally was Braddock defeat catastrophic This Monongahela. the across back and unprotected Pennsylvania western of settlers the left series a initiate to French the of allies Indian the allowed the and Pennsylvania western both of settlers on raids of Valley. Susquehanna - of the French and The Archaeology le t AB C Indian War in Indian War Pennsylvania li F www.pennsylvaniaarchaeology.com www.paarchaeology.state.pa.us nevit on i http://twipa.blogspot.com C e H The French and Indian Indian and French The t War was the inevitable inevitable the was War outcome of competition competition of outcome May, 1754. On his way to attack attack to way his On 1754. May, Washington Duquesne, Fort of detachment a encountered French forty approximately Joseph by commanded soldiers Jumonville. de Villiers de Coulon the at minutes, ffteen Within most Glen, Jumonville of battle or killed were French the of included dead The captured. quickly Washington Jumonville. Meadow. Great the to retreated Necessity, Fort built he There lowland. on situated poorly of detachment his 3–4 July On Virginians 350 approximately 600 by surrounded quickly was between two eighteenth-century European European eighteenth-century two between By 1740 English traders were expanding into the Ohio Ohio the into expanding were traders English 1740 By sent was Washington George twenty-one of age the At military powers. At its outset the French and English had had English and French the outset its At powers. military nearly for America North of resources the exploiting been controlled 75,000) (population French, The years. 200 Mississippi and Ohio the through south Canada, eastern (population British The territory. Louisiana the to valleys, Scotia Nova from coast Atlantic the controlled million) 1.5 Georgia. to burned French the incursions, these to response In Valley. the of forks the at Fort, Trent’s station, supply English the This Duquesne. Fort with it replaced and 1754 in Ohio trav Supplies region. the in fortifcation major the became Presque la de Fort from Path Venango the along south eled fnally and Machault, Fort LeBoeuf, Fort through Erie, Isle, Duquesne. Fort to French the demand to Virginia of Dinwiddie Governor by reached Washington When region. the from withdrawal seven of escort an with 1753 of December in LeBoeuf Fort sent Dinwiddie withdraw.
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