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unusual facts about Joseph Coulon de Jumonville


Joseph Coulon de Jumonville

He was later promoted to Second Ensign and was stationed in Acadia during King George's War (as the North American theater of the War of the Austrian Succession is sometimes called).


General Johnson Saving a Wounded French Officer from the Tomahawk of a North American Indian

At the beginning of the French and Indian War, young George Washington is said to have let Indian chief Tanaghrisson seal their fresh alliance by smashing the skull of Joseph Coulon de Jumonville, a wounded French officer they just took as prisoner, then washing his hands in the man's brain.


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