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the french destruction
when the French destruction of a pro-British Miami village in western Ohio helped to bring Shawnees, Delawares, and other Ohio Indians into the French orbit. -
the govenor of dispatched
the governor of Virginia dispatched the young George Washington t the upper Ohio to warm the French away from the valley -
washington returns
Washington returned with troops to seize the regions most strategic point, the forks of the Ohio a modern Pittsburgh, defeated a French detachment, and was defeated in turn when the French and their indian allies forced his surrender at fort necessity on July 3. -
British authorities
British authorities dispatched Maj. Gen. Sir Edward Braddock and 1,400 regular troops to the Ohio frontier. Braddock accepted Virginia militia and supplies from Pennsylvania but arrogantly ignored colonial advice about how to fight in Indian country. -
settlers newly planted
Settlers newly planted in the greenbrier and upper New River valleys were killed, captured, or frightened back across the mountains, while the older settlements in the south branch and Potomac valleys came under heavy assault. here a minority of residents held their ground, backed by a chain of small forts that Washington organized. -
big sandy river
Lewis's orders were to march toward the Ohio via ''Sandy creek'' ( the big sandy river) and destroy the Shawnee villages in southern Ohio. -
Europe
When defeat in Europe, India, an the Caribbean led the French to accept a general settlement -
uneasy peace
Finally, a uneasy peace settled over the Ohio Valley, though the basic issue of wo would control the region remained unsettled.