French And English Colonists During The Vietnam War

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English colonists were trying to push west, further into the New World. In doing this they went into the Ohio Valley making the French upset because they had already set up trade there. This caused the French to build military strongholds, the biggest being in southwest Pennsylvania, trying to keep the English out. Colonists in Virginia decided to retaliate against the French. They did this by building Fort Necessity close to the forts that they had built. Then the Virginia colonists sent George Washington, who was a young inexperienced militia colonel, to deter the French from building more forts. When Washington did this “a skirmish between the French and English ignited yet another war, with more consequences than before” (Shultz,