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The Battle of Fort Necessity, also known as the Battle of the Great Meadows, took place on July 3, 1754, in present-day Farmington in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.The engagement, along with a May 28 skirmish known as the Battle of Jumonville Glen, was the first military combat experience for George Washington, who was later selected as commander of the Continental Army during the American ...
Fort Necessity National Battlefield is a National Battlefield in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States, which preserves the site of the Battle of Fort Necessity.The battle, which took place on July 3, 1754, was an early battle of the French and Indian War, and resulted in the surrender of British colonial forces under Colonel George Washington, to the French and Indians, under Louis ...
An engraving depicting the evening council of George Washington at Fort Necessity. Louis Coulon, Sieur de Villiers (17 August 1710 – 2 November 1757) was a French military officer who served during the French and Indian War. Perhaps his greatest claim to fame is the fact that he is the only military opponent to force George Washington to ...
On June 28, 1754, a combined force of 600 French, French Canadian, and Indian soldiers, under the command of Jumonville's brother, Louis Coulon de Villiers, left Fort Duquesne. [36] On July 3, they captured Fort Necessity in the Battle of Fort Necessity and forced Washington to negotiate a withdrawal under arms. [37]
Satisfied with their victory, the British returned to Fort Necessity. [citation needed] On 3 July 1754, the French, aided by Native American tribes, took their revenge at the Battle of Fort Necessity. Heavy rain prevented the British from seeing the terrain and defending themselves against their attackers.
The Anglo-French conflict over the Ohio Country led to raising of the first provincial regiment in the British colony of Virginia.In 1754, the Virginia General Assembly voted to raise a regiment of 300 men and send it to the confluence of the Alleghany and Monongahela rivers.
James Mackay (1718–1785) was a captain in the British Army during the French and Indian War.He was in command of an Independent Company of South Carolina when he was sent by the Governor of South Carolina to assist Virginia's defense of the Ohio Country from the French in the summer of 1754.
He served under Captain Andrew Lewis at the Battle of Fort Necessity in July 1754 [45] [46]: 112, 116–117 and in November he applied for an officer's commission, which was denied. [ 47 ] : 398 In a letter of 13 November 1754, from Governor Robert Dinwiddie to Maryland Governor Horatio Sharpe , Dinwiddie mentions that "The bearer hereof, Thos ...