The Jumonville Affair

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National Park Service

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$5.99

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Official Store

Who owned the Ohio valley? What were the limits of the French’s incontestable territory? What was the goal of M. de Jumonville’s mission? And did Washington really assassinate him unprovoked? Inquiries like these into the Jumonville affair have long been debated amongst historians, often leading to more questions than answers. In Europe’s race to occupy the American soil, author Marcel Trudel begins, the Ohio valley long remained a forgotten corner... However, in 1754, this overlooked swath of soil within present-day western Pennsylvania became hotly contested. Historians agree that the…