Diplomats, Soldiers, and Slaveholders: The Coulon de Villiers Family in New France, 1700-1763
In 1754, young George Washington, accompanied by Virginian soldiers and Indian allies, ambushed a French camp in the woods of the Ohio Country. Joseph Coulon de Villiers, sieur de Jumonville, the leader of the French party, died in the skirmish. The Affair and its aftermath provided an impetus for t...
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-03222011-085548/ |