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expedite the march i shall be supported in it, which at present i don't apprehend will, unhe's some busy body intermedals. do you think the governor got the message? a month later promoted to a lieutenant colonel it was in a different tone of voice that he addressed his excellency. the south carolina company whose royal commission entitled its members to higher rank and pay compared to washington's hastily recruited irregulars. on learning that his earnings would be substantially less than his counterpart in the regular british army, washington threatened to resign. i have to tell yo...

confident. thinking his regulars would carry the day, and not only he thought take fort dusquene and thought march on ward to niagra and other points. no doubt he was overconfident. >> he landed, where did his troops first come. they came to virginia and then moved into maryland, and then northwest ward for fort dusquene. accompanying him were virginia militia men. george washington was at the head of the virginia militia assisting general braddock. we have british colonials working with the british commander. branddock didn't find everything easily. it took benjamin franklin's inter...

shawnees, delawares, potawatomies, miamis, many, many others, and we'll talk about some of those today. so the name french and indian war can be used to indicate the seven years war north america, but it's very important to remember that it doesn't really mean that all the natives by any means are simply on the french side or that they stay on one side throughout the war. again, native peoples enter this conflict for their own reasons, for their own interests. and we'll see that their interests are not identical at all to the french, let alone to the british. so what is ft. necessity...

he landed, where did his troops first come in they came to virginia and then moved into maryland and then northwestward toward fort duquesne. accompanying him were virginia militia men. and george washington was at the head of those virginia militia assisting general braddock. so here we have colonials, british colonials from virginia working with the british commander general braddock. braddock didn't find everything easy. he found that the colonists weren't necessarily simply cooperative with the british war effort, especially farmers, and it took benjamin franklin's intervention t...

washington thought and what type of man he was, i became fascinated about all the stories that surrounded him, all the legends. at the washington paper we get so many queries from the people and the general public. many of them are interesting and serious queries about what washington did or who he was but we get the occasional whacky email or whacky phone call or piece of correspondence that asks about whether -- for example, somebody asked me did washington really die on an engineering expedition in russia. or another question, did washington really say this? did washington really ...