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The Governer
In 1753, Governor of Virginia dispatched the young George Washington to the upper Ohio to warn the French away from the valley. -
Washington Returns
Washington returned with troops to seize the region's most strategic point, the Forks of the Ohio at modern Pittsburg, defeated a French detachment and was defeated in turn the French ad their India allies forced his surrender at Fort necessity on July 3. -
Washington returned with troops
To seize the region's most strategic point, the Folks of the Ohio at modern Pittsburgh -
Sandy Creek
Lewis's orders were to march toward the Ohio via "Sandy Creek" (Big Sandy River) and destroy the Shawnee villages in southern Ohio. III-disciplined, poorly supplied, and unlucky in the weather and scarcity of game they encountered, this Sandy Creek expedition struggled forward for nearly a month in February-March 1756 before turning back in a state of near-starvation and mutiny -
The Seven Years' War
In Europe the conflict was called the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), but its Ohio Valley phase cannot be dated. Although commonly dated to 1754, the war may have started as early as 1752, when the French destruction of a pro-British Miami village in western Ohio helped to bring the Shawnees, Delawares, and other Ohio Indians into the French orbit. -
John Forbes drove the the French away
From the Forks of the Ohio, present Pittsburgh, and established Fort Pitt there.
