Archaeologists Discover Site Where George Washington Stopped a Friendly Fire Incident by Blocking Muskets With His Sword

Archaeologists Identify French and Indian War Battlefield - Archaeology Magazine

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 been before or since.” Washington was pursuing a contingent of French troops near Fort Ligonier in western Pennsylvania during the French and Indian War when fog and darkness caused confusion, which led to a brutal exchange of friendly fire between Wa…

Archaeologists Discover Site Where George Washington Stopped a Friendly Fire Incident by Blocking Muskets With His Sword

In 1758, during the French and Indian War, the future president saved lives by stepping into the middle of a deadly skirmish in Pennsylvania

Archaeologists have found a lost George Washington battlefield

LIGONIER, Pa. — Around 1787, George Washington sat down to write some notes for a biographer. He was not a man given to self-reflection. But he wanted to correct the record about his experiences three decades earlier during the French and Indian War, when he had led a regiment of Virginia militiamen fighting alongside the British on what was then the rugged western frontier. It was not all glory. In one passage, Washington recalled the terrible,…

Archaeologists Found the Lost Site Where George Washington’s Men Accidentally Shot Each Other

To be fair to Washington, he did try his best to stop it.