Fort Necessity National Battlefield
In the wooded glen not many miles away and here on this "charming field for an encounter", Lt. Col. George Washington started it all.  Shown here is a reconstruction of the small fort where Washington offered his only surrender to a foreign power.  It was the beginning of the French and Indian War in North America that necessitated the sending of Gen. Edward Braddock and two regiments of British regulars to finish what the colonials had started. When Col. Washington passed by here with Gen. Braddock in 1755 the bones of some of the men killed in '54 were still lying parched on the ground.
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Ft. Pitt (Ft. Duquesne)

Built on the location of Ft. Duquesne at the Forks of the Ohio, Ft. Pitt was the British fort guarding this strategic river location beginning in 1758 on through the Revolution. It was built by British Gen. John Forbes who in 1758 finally took the fort that Gen. Braddock had lost his life trying to conquer.
    http://www.fortpittmuseum.com/

    Gen. Braddock's remains were discovered many years after his death by a road crew repairing the road under which he had been buried to hide his body from scavaging Indians. He was reburied under this monument by the new section of Rt. 40 in Pennsylvania.
    Braddock's Grave

Carlyle House in Alexandria, Virginia was used by Gen. Braddock for his historic meeting with the colonial governors. At this meeting he revealed the British plan for the elimination of the French threat to the American colonies.
    Carlyle House

A Tour of Braddock’s Road from Fort Necessity to Pittsburgh by Frank A. Cassell & Elizabeth W. Cassell is a virtual tour of Braddock's route on the web site of Westmoreland County Historical Society.

Col. Washington's Frontier Forts Association is an association of sites in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania working together to prepare for the 250th anniversary of the French and Indian War.
    http://www.FrontierForts.org