George Washington and the Half-King Chief Tanacharison is a detailed account of the singular events in western Pennsylvania that precipitated the French and Indian War. It describes the interpersonal relationship between 22-year-old, inexperienced, but self-assured George Washington and the 54-year-old wily Iroquois Chief Tanacharison, and how their interaction resulted in, as Horace Walpole quipped, Washington firing "a volley in the backwoods of America that set the world on fire.
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George Washington and the Half-King Chief Tanacharison is a detailed account of the singular events in western Pennsylvania that precipitated the French and Indian War. It describes the interpersonal relationship between 22-year-old, inexperienced, but self-assured George Washington and the 54-year-old wily Iroquois Chief Tanacharison, and how their interaction resulted in, as Horace Walpole quipped, Washington firing "a volley in the backwoods of America that set the world on fire.
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