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The 'First World War' and a Lost Tavern in George Washington's America - with Dr. Terence Christian
The story of a hidden Seven Years' War ('French and Indian War') time-capsule building in Pennsylvania and what it tells us about this vicious 18th-century North American conflict and the exact whereabouts of a young George Washington and his commander, General John Forbes. Join Dr. Terence Christian as he describes the war, George Washington's key role and the discovery of a lost building that Washington may have frequented during the Forbes Campaign.
01:54 - The Seven Years War: was it effectively the first world war? What happened in North America?
03:20 - French and British conflict over the strategic Ohio River Valley
05:05 - How a young British colonial militia officer, THE George Washington, started the conflict
07:45 - George Washington the battles of Jumonville Glen and Fort Necessity
08:14 - Jumonville & Fort Necessity - How Washington 'didn't really mean to start a world war'
10:19 - Washington and the Braddock Campaign and 'the start of a world war'
11:20 - Dr. Terence Christian's commercial archaeology project of a 1750s mystery building survival
12:45 - Washington the Surveyor and Braddock's Road to the French frontier
14:43 - 'A confluence of stupidity' Britain and the disastrous Battle of Fort Duquesne
17:03 - Return to Fort Duquesne - The Forbes Expedition, 1758
17:30 - Terence's Site: a building connected to Braddock's Road and Forbes of the Forbes Campaign
18:30 - 'When [the building owners] pulled the walls down, they realized they had something far older'
19:08 - The Project: a mysterious 3-sided log-built structure buried within later walls
19:22 - Was this General Forbes' lost guns and gunpowder store from the lost Fort Bedford?
19:58 - The commercial archaeology project begins - desk-based map regressions and site visits
37:23 - Found! The last remnant of the Rising Sun tavern, central to Forbes' officers like Washington
38:50 - Huge importance of this last structure relating to Forbes, Fort Bedford & the 'First World War'
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By Rubicon ArchaeologyThe story of a hidden Seven Years' War ('French and Indian War') time-capsule building in Pennsylvania and what it tells us about this vicious 18th-century North American conflict and the exact whereabouts of a young George Washington and his commander, General John Forbes. Join Dr. Terence Christian as he describes the war, George Washington's key role and the discovery of a lost building that Washington may have frequented during the Forbes Campaign.
01:54 - The Seven Years War: was it effectively the first world war? What happened in North America?
03:20 - French and British conflict over the strategic Ohio River Valley
05:05 - How a young British colonial militia officer, THE George Washington, started the conflict
07:45 - George Washington the battles of Jumonville Glen and Fort Necessity
08:14 - Jumonville & Fort Necessity - How Washington 'didn't really mean to start a world war'
10:19 - Washington and the Braddock Campaign and 'the start of a world war'
11:20 - Dr. Terence Christian's commercial archaeology project of a 1750s mystery building survival
12:45 - Washington the Surveyor and Braddock's Road to the French frontier
14:43 - 'A confluence of stupidity' Britain and the disastrous Battle of Fort Duquesne
17:03 - Return to Fort Duquesne - The Forbes Expedition, 1758
17:30 - Terence's Site: a building connected to Braddock's Road and Forbes of the Forbes Campaign
18:30 - 'When [the building owners] pulled the walls down, they realized they had something far older'
19:08 - The Project: a mysterious 3-sided log-built structure buried within later walls
19:22 - Was this General Forbes' lost guns and gunpowder store from the lost Fort Bedford?
19:58 - The commercial archaeology project begins - desk-based map regressions and site visits
37:23 - Found! The last remnant of the Rising Sun tavern, central to Forbes' officers like Washington
38:50 - Huge importance of this last structure relating to Forbes, Fort Bedford & the 'First World War'
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.