Posted on 06/30/2002 11:28:31 AM PDT by Willie Green
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:34:41 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
George Washington probably had nightmares about July in Western Pennsylvania.
An oak stockade and portable field artillery were not enough to protect George Washington and his 400-man force from the French at Fort Necessity on a rainy July 4, 1754.
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
Washington : an abridgement in one volume by Richard Harwell of the seven-volume George Washington by Douglas Southall Freeman
- by Richard Barksdale HarwellAvailable through Barnes & Noble, also Amazon.com.
Also recommended, about the author of the seven-volume George Washington:
Douglas Southall Freeman, by David E. Johnson.
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