LIGONIER, PENNSYLVANIA—On November 12, 1758, George Washington, then a colonel in the British army, faced imminent peril. Years later, he wrote that his life was in as “much jeopardy as it ever had ...

The film explores the French and Indian War, a pivotal conflict between France and England in the mid-18th century that determined control over North America. It discusses the initial military ...

The American Revolution was a defining moment in the history of Pennsylvania. Neighbor turned against neighbor amidst a desperate civil war in colonial America. Indigenous societies were uprooted from ...

You may think you know some of the history of the French and Indian War and even of Fort Ligonier, but it's what's been found just 2 miles away from the fort that is shedding new light on the global ...

Archaeologists found the battlefield on private land a few miles away from Fort Ligonier in Pennsylvania. Jeff Kubina via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 Three decades before his election as the ...

Feb. 10 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1763, the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years' War between Britain and Spain and also the French and Indian War, with France ceding Quebec to Great ...

Introduction: The war that won a continent -- Colliding empires (1748-1756) -- 1. The bells of Aix-la-Chapelle -- 2. Beautiful Ohio -- Albany, 1754 -- Braddock's ...