New evidence helps resolve enduring mysteries about a 1758 incident that nearly cost the future president his life—and shaped ...

You may think you know some of the history of the French and Indian War and even of Fort Ligonier, but it's what's been found just 2 miles away from the fort that is shedding new light on the global ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Matt Gault, director of education at Fort Ligonier, recounted the events leading up to the “Friendly Fire” incident near Fort Ligonier in Ligonier, ...

As a young officer in the French and Indian War, Washington was involved in a devastating friendly fire incident. Military veterans are helping archaeologists excavate the location. By Jennifer ...

LIGONIER, PENNSYLVANIA—On November 12, 1758, George Washington, then a colonel in the British army, faced imminent peril. Years later, he wrote that his life was in as “much jeopardy as it ever had ...

Before he became the first U.S. president, George Washington helped ignite a global war. The French and Indian War saw empires battling for supremacy in the Americas, with Native nations caught in ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Veterans Archaeology Program Co-Founder Jonathan Burns, discusssed the discovery of artifacts in western Pennsylvania now declared to be the site of ...

Introduction: The war that won a continent -- Colliding empires (1748-1756) -- 1. The bells of Aix-la-Chapelle -- 2. Beautiful Ohio -- Albany, 1754 -- Braddock's ...