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 <li>: a land grant of 1748 which included land claimed by France; as a result of the grant, numerous surveyors and militia expeditions were sent to explore, map and open the lands for American settlement, including to build a fort that played an important part in the outbreak of the French-Indian War.
 * <u>Direct causes</u>:
-** in late 1753, Virginia Governor Dinwiddie, an Ohio Company shareholder, sent Col. George Washington to warn the French to abandon forts they had built on lands claimed by the Oho Company; the French refused, and Dinwiddie sent a small militia force, which was driven off; in May 1754, Dinwiddie sent a larger force to attack the fort, now Ft. Duquesne. The French held the fort and defeated the Virginia militia, under Washington, who surrendered Fr. Necessity. These battles marked the outbreak of the French-Indian War.
+** 1753-54: Virginia militia expeditions sent to challenge French expansion in the Ohio Valley via building of a series of forts
+** May 1754: fighting breaks out at Ft. Duquesne and Ft. Necessity
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