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The governor of Virginia dispatched the young George Washington t the upper Ohio to warn the French away from the valley.
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Washington returned with troops to seize the region's most strategic point, the Forks of the Ohio at modern Pittsburgh, defeated a French detachment, and was defeated in turn when the French and their Indians allies forced his surrender at Fort Necessity on July 3. Shortly hereafter an Indian attack wiped out the first attempted while settlement in Tygart Valley near the Monongahela headwaters.
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British authorities dispatched Maj. Gen. Sir Edward Braddock and 1,400 regular troops t Ohio frontier.
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Ill-disciplined, poorly supplied, and unlucky in the weather and scarcity of game they encountered, this Sandy Creek Expedition struggled forward for nearly a month in February-March 1756 before turning back in a state of near-starvation and mutiny.
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Here a minority of residents held their ground, backed by a chain of small forts that Washington organized in 1756.
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John Forbes drove the French away from the Forks of the Ohio, present Pittsburgh, and established Fort Pitt there.
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Finally in 1764, an uneasy peace settled over the Ohio Valley, through the basic issue of who would control the region remained unsettled.
