LETTERS OF DECLARATION – 1753 Letters of Declaration – 1753 – of Armed Trespass into British territory was delivered by British Major George Washington to the French. The French responded. British Letter of Declaration to the French Source: George Washington’s Journal British Letter of Declaration from Governor Dinwiddie to the French – delivered by George Washington | 1753 French Letter of Declaration to the British Source: George Washington’s Journal French …

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Washington confronts death twice while returning to Williamsburg in 1753; by French Indians and by crossing the icy Allegheny River on a hand-made raft.

French treachery at Fort Le Boeuf in 1753 was discovered by Major Washington when he found the French were abducting English traders.

French Captain Joncaire told George Washington Ohio was theirs. They would take the Ohio since it was rightfully theirs, discovered by La Salle some 60 years ago. No more English settlements on the river or any of its waters.

1753-Tanaghrisson Half-King, delegate for the Indian Council of Six Nations, warned the French not to trespass the Ohio Valley – no building or taking of Indian land.

BRITISH AND FRENCH RIVALRY British and French rivalry was due to suspicion and fear, causing hostilities and numerous wars between them, and their American colonies were no different. In the Treaty of Whitehall (1686), the English King James II and the French King Louis XIV pledged to refrain from hostile behavior in America even if they found themselves at war between each other in Europe. This treaty was meant to …

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