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Dispatched the young George Washington to the upper Ohio to warn the French away from the valley.
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In Europe it was called the seven year war (1756-1763). The war began when the French destroyed some of the pro-British Miami village in western Ohio.
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In 1754 Washington returned with troops to seize the region's most strategic point. (The Forks of Ohio at Modern Pittsburg)
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Sir Edward Braddock and 1,400 regular troops to Ohio frontier in 1755. Braddock accepted Virginia militia and supplies from Pennsylvania but arrogantly ignored colonial advice about how to fight in Indian country. He led his army into one of the worst defeats in frontier history.
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An uneasy peace settled over the Ohio Valley, though the basic issues of who would control the region remained unsettled.
