Jumonville Glen: a world war begins in the woods
1754 · Event
In the Pennsylvania backcountry, a 22-year-old Virginia militia colonel named George Washington ambushes a French party and a diplomatic envoy dies in the confusion — a fifteen-minute skirmish that escalates, alliance by alliance, into war on four continents. 'A volley fired by a young Virginian in the backwoods of America,' Horace Walpole wrote, 'set the world on fire.'
On these timelines: The Seven Years' War, USA, Canada, Master, France
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