HOSTILE FRONTIER,: The Colony of Virginia at War, 1754-1764

In 1753, a young, inexperienced Major of Militia was sent by the Colony of Virginia to order French soldiers to depart from territory that could have been French, or British The French did not comply and a year later this same Major, now a Lieutenant Colonel, returned in force. This marked the beginning of a decade spent at war for the Colony of Virginia. Virginia is the only British North American Colony to have been subjected to the ravages of, and participated in the French and Indian Wa...