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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