The 'First World War' and a Lost Tavern in George Washington's America - with Dr. Terence Christian

The story of a hidden Seven Years' War ('French and Indian War') time-capsule building in Pennsylvania and what it tells us about this vicious 18th-century North American conflict and the exact whereabouts of a young George Washington and his commander, General John Forbes. Join Dr. Terence Christian as he describes the war, George Washington's key role and the discovery of a lost building that Washington may have frequented during the Forbes Campaign.

01:54 - The Seven Years War: was it effectively the first world war? What happened in North America?

03:20 - French and British conflict over the strategic Ohio River Valley

05:05 - How a young British colonial militia officer, THE George Washington, started the conflict

07:45 - George Washington the battles of Jumonville Glen and Fort Necessity

08:14 - Jumonville & Fort Necessity - How Washington 'didn't really mean to start a world war'

10:19 - Washington and the Braddock Campaign and 'the start of a world war'

11:20 - Dr. Terence Christian's commercial archaeology project of a 1750s mystery building survival

12:45 - Washington the Surveyor and Braddock's Road to the French frontier

14:43 - 'A confluence of stupidity' Britain and the disastrous Battle of Fort Duquesne

17:03 - Return to Fort Duquesne - The Forbes Expedition, 1758

17:30 - Terence's Site: a building connected to Braddock's Road and Forbes of the Forbes Campaign

18:30 - 'When [the building owners] pulled the walls down, they realized they had something far older'

19:08 - The Project: a mysterious 3-sided log-built structure buried within later walls

19:22 - Was this General Forbes' lost guns and gunpowder store from the lost Fort Bedford?

19:58 - The commercial archaeology project begins - desk-based map regressions and site visits

37:23 - Found! The last remnant of the Rising Sun tavern, central to Forbes' officers like Washington

38:50 - Huge importance of this last structure relating to Forbes, Fort Bedford & the 'First World War'

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