Pennsylvania

Fort Necessity National Battlefield

The confrontation at Fort Necessity in the summer of 1754 was the prelude to the war fought by England and France for control of the North American continent. The struggle was known in North America as the French and Indian War and spread around the world as the Seven Years' War.

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Fort Necessity

an entrenched camp built by George Washington in July 1754, near what is now Uniontown, Pennsylvania. A large French force, attacking in reprisal for a the defeat of a French patrol near Great Meadows, forced Washington to surrender on July 4. Washington was able to return to Virginia with all of his remaining men and supplies

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