The French and Indian War (Part 3)
Fun Fact #606 An Offensive Surrender After being “Convinced” to surrender by 900 Frenchmen at Fort Necessity, Colonel George Washington was forced to sign a document to formalize the surrender. One major problem however was that Washington did not speak French and was forced to use a translator provided by the French whom he trusted to give him an accurate account of what was written in French on the surrender. . . Predictably he could not trust the translator as the document was actually a confession to orchestrating the assassination of (French officer) Ensign Jumonville. After which the French allowed Washington to leave as the French in the area did not have the ability to care or guard prisoners. When Colonel Washington returned to Virginia he found himself a laughingstock for his defeat and trust of the translator. Yet Virginia had not been idle in his time away. As the only colony with its own full time Military (British Regulars), they had reorganized ...
