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Washington's First Command: The Ohio Valley, 1754

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Washington's own 1754 letter to Governor Dinwiddie drives this activity: students judge what a participant's account can and cannot settle, then argue whether Jumonville Glen was a battle or an ambush using the disputed evidence the lesson lays out.

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