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Robert Dinwiddie was lieutenant governor of colonial Virginia from 1751 to 1758. He pressed British claims in the Ohio Country, sent George Washington to warn French forces in 1753 and helped initiate the military confrontation that developed into the French and Indian War.
Dinwiddie’s insistence on confronting French expansion helped turn a frontier dispute into the opening phase of the French and Indian War. His 1753 mission sent the young George Washington into the Ohio Country, and subsequent Virginia expeditions helped trigger armed conflict in 1754. Dinwiddie returned to Britain in 1758 after years of disputes with colonial assemblies over taxation, military finance and the defence of the frontier.
William Savage’s Rivers Run Deep places Robert Dinwiddie in the Virginia administration that sends the young George Washington west with a warning to French forces occupying the Ohio Country. New World Order follows the consequences after Washington’s failed 1754 expedition, with Dinwiddie’s attempts to mobilise colonial resources becoming part of the escalation from a frontier dispute into the French and Indian War.
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The New World Saga follows the Washington family and a wider cast of soldiers, traders, settlers, Indigenous diplomats, servants and political agents through the imperial wars that reshaped eighteenth-century North America. It begins with Lawrence Washington’s service in the War of Jenkins’ Ear, then turns to the young…
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