When Young George Washington Started a War

[Anita]

A just-discovered eyewitness account provides startling new evidence about who fired the shot that sparked the French and Indian War
Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/w...1Kd41gu.99

[RJNorton]

Wow, that's not the way it was told in the textbook I used as a teacher. That is a very interesting article, Anita!

[AussieMick]

I havent got it now (borrowed from the public library) but Ron Chernow's "Washington: A Life", from memory, described much the same events (but in less detail) and suggested that young Washington had made an error with others eager to place all the blame on him. It struck me as surprising that he managed to not only re-claim his reputation but also to put the whole debacle, where he was almost killed, behind him.