The French & Indian War has begun, with a French-Native American guerrilla force annihilating General Edward Braddock's British army. The British colonies of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland are now undefended, and French-led raiding parties terrorize English settlements, pushing them back towards the Atlantic coast.
George Washington's First War: The Battles for Fort Duquesne
The French and Indian War commences with a crushing defeat of General Edward Braddock's British army by a French-Native American guerrilla force in 1755, just six miles from Fort Duquesne in the Ohio Country.
