George Washington
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- This is Mount Vernon were I grew up. When I was a young lad my father past away. Later when I was 15 years old i began working as a surveyor.
- Then later in 1755 I was promoted to General Edward Braddock's army where I was sent to confront the French about the =m leaving our land. They refused to leave so then I came back and was promoted to Colonel and I was sent back west again and we both thought the land was ours
- Later me and some of my men went to the Ohio Valley to a place where I was given orders to build a fort but the French had already built one. Then later I was informed that a French scouting party was in the woods. Then me and my men were attacked. Luckily we managed to kill some of the scouts.
- Then I heard that the French were going to counter attack so me and my men built a makeshift stockade and we named it Fort Necessity. Then almost 900 French and Native American forces surrounded the fort and we had to surrender.
- I was captured and the French agreed to release me but they made me sign a confession that said that I was to be assassinated. Then me and my men reported this to Lieutenant Governor Dinwiddie.
- I didn't know at the time but the battle at Great Meadow was the start of the French Indian war. Then the seven years of wars had just started
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