Site of attempt on Trump’s life was a mere 6 miles away from similar attempt on life of Washington
An important figure in American history once narrowly escaped with his life after an assassination attempt in western Pennsylvania – but it wasn’t former President Donald J. Trump.
George Washington, just 21 years old when it happened, was a major in the British Army.
The year was 1753.
The United States did not yet exist — and young Washington was traveling from Virginia to western Pennsylvania.
His goal? Preventing war.
A monument in Evans City, Pennsylvania, recounts the assassination attempt on George Washington’s life in Dec. 1753. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital )
Washington “was on his way to go up to Fort Le Boeuf, which would be close to Erie,” Jack Cohen, president of Butler County Tourism and board member of the 1753 George Washington Trail, told Fox News Digital in a phone interview this week.
There, he would meet with French troops “to see if he could stop the French and Indian War,” Cohen said.
Washington had been tasked with delivering a letter from Virginia Gov. Robert Dinwiddie, requesting that the French leave the area.
So ???? Does that make Butler PA anti-American or something. What is article trying to say? Are is it just some news writer’s dribble trying to keep their job ? Whatever the reason, it is irrelevant.