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Battle of Jumonville Glen (1754)
The
Battle of Jumonville Glen
, also known as the
Jumonville affair
, was the opening battle of the French and Indian War fought on May 28, 1754 near what is present-day Uniontown in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
Lieutenant Colonel George Washington was leading an expedition to meet up with a group of Frontiersmen who had set out a few months earlier in order to build a fort. On his way, Washington received word that a French party of 50 soldiers was in the area. Fearing they may be a raiding party, Washington ambushed them, and nearly every Frenchmen was killed or captured. This skirmish would prove to be the opening shots of the Seven Years War.
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