say the backwoodsmen and the Indians all liked him very much. His surveying knowledge came in handy much later when he was President.
             When George was nineteen he was made a Major in charge of one of the military districts, in which the colony of Virginia was divided from handling attacks on the frontier by the French and Indians. This was the real beginning of the seven-year French and Indian War. Two years later he was sent on a mission to the French to find out just what their intentions were and to warn them off. This meant six hundred miles alone through the wilderness. However, for a young fellow of his build, experience, and aptitudes this was all in the day's work and probably very enjoyable. In 1754 he commanded a regiment against the French, who had established themselves at Fort Duquesne (now Pittsburgh): but he was driven back by superior
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