On this day 250 years ago, George Washington wrote a letter to John West asking for his assistance in contacting veterans of the Virginia militia who had served under Washington in the French and Indian War to let them know that there would be an upcoming distribution of land in the Ohio River valley for veterans. American settlers in the Ohio valley encroaching on Indian lands, and Britain’s subsequent attempt to curtail settlements west of the Appalachians, were among the causes that precipitated the Revolution.

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