Ticket to Write: George Washington tasted defeat years before revolution

The Father of Our Country started out as a failure, at least as a military man.George Washington’s great, early failure is remembered at Fort Necessity National Battlefield in southwestern Pennsylvania, as are some of his later successes.In 1754, Lt. Col. Washington led a force of Virginia troops to try to push the French out of the Ohio Valley. He was unsuccessful.After surprising and killing a number of French troops, the British colonial force under Washington’s [...]