1. George Washington was a member of Virginia’s militia sent as ambassador to the French in Ohio River’s Valley. In that time there were a lot of tensions between French and English so, in his expedition, George Washington allied with some Indians and ambushed a French scouting party. In it, the Indians killed the French leader. But the responsibility of this act was given to the English because George Washington was deceived in the signing of a document of peace. George couldn’t understand that document because it was in French, so it signed it relying to his translator. But he tricked him and didn’t say to George that the document said that he had killed the French leader. That was the trigger of the war: the precarious balance was destroyed and French and English started to fight.
2. Half-King is the Indians’ leader, the man with greater power in political an military decisions. He decided to betray the French allies doing a secret pact with the British against them. His decision was due to his goal, he wanted her lands free, and to achieve that an alliance with British would have been better than an alliance with French.
3. Half-King murdered the French to revenge the humiliation received before and to show them, and to the British too, Indians’ power, to scary and make them come back home. He wanted Natives’ lands free.
4. Probably Indians are who were more in the right. They couldn’t choose to fight but they had to because the battles were on their lands. They had to fight to defend their selves and try to recapture their freedom.
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