French & Indian War news

[TauntaunScout]

Hi,
The October 2019 issue of Smithsonian Magazine has an article about George Washington's involvement in the start of the Seven Year's War. A new first-hand account (from a British-aligned Indian) was found in some treaty records in England. For those unfamiliar with the start of the war, wile there were a lot of underlying tensions, what finally touched it off was the so-called "Jumonville incident" where a French officer was killed in a skirmish with forces under the command of a young George Washington. The new eyewitness account places a lot of the moral blame on Washington himself, which was always sorta theorized but this is pretty interesting because of the unprecedented level of detail with which it describes the skirmish.