The year 1753.
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The United States did not yet exist, and the young Washington traveled from Virginia to western Pennsylvania.
Their goal? Prevent war.
A monument in Evans City, Pennsylvania, chronicles the assassination of George Washington in December 1753. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)
Washington “was on its way to Fort Le Boeuf, which would be close to Erie,” Jack Cohen, Butler County Tourism president and a board member of 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 can avoid the French and Indian war,” Cohen said.
Washington had been tasked with delivering a letter from Virginia Governor Robert Dinwiddie that did not ask the French to leave the region.
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But the French were reluctant to abandon the region, and a full-fledged war would begin about six months after Washington’s at Fort Le Boeuf.
However, even before that, on December 27, 1753, Washington and his guide, a surveyor named Christopher Gist, were following the Venango Indian Trail back to Virginia when they stopped for the night at Connoquenessing Creek in Pennsylvania, he recounted. Cohen.
The attempt on Washington’s life is the work of artist Deac Mong in this 2007 painting titled “The First Shot. “The painting hangs in the Butler County Courthouse. (Deacon Mong)
George Washington, depicted in this portrait painted by Constable-Hamilton, 1794, later served as president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. (Smith/Gado/Getty Images Collection)
There, the two befriended an “Indian guide” who told them he would help them cross the desert, he said.
It turns out that the “Indian guide” allied himself with the French troops and is not satisfied with seeing Washington.
The guy “loaded his musket and fired at Washington and narrowly missed. “
The guy “loaded his musket and fired at Washington and narrowly missed,” Cohen said of the chilling murder attempt.
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“They came to chase him and Gist said, ‘Let him pass. ‘ So they let it go and left the next morning.
Nearly three hundred years after the brazen attempt on Washington’s life, the event is chronicled through two markers in what is now Evans City, Pennsylvania, which is near the location of the Butler Farm Show where Trump nearly lost his job. life recently.
Evans City, where George Washington, its founding father, was nearly assassinated, is about six miles from the Butler Farm Show, where former President Donald Trump was nearly assassinated on July 13, 2024. (Deac Mong; Google Earth; AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Washington’s possible killer, the Markers note, “15 steps from him” when the shooter fired.
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Today, Cohen and other board members must get the National Park Service to identify the historic Washington Expressway as a National Historic Trail.
Many other people are making a concerted effort to get the National Park Service to identify Washington’s 1753 Pennsylvania address as a National Historic Trail. A portion of the trail is shown above. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)
“This will be a national investigation knowing that George Washington may have been killed here,” he told Fox News Digital.
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“It happened here in Butler County. ”
A general view of the path along which George Washington, the founding father, escaped an assassination attempt in present-day Evans City, Pennsylvania, on Friday, July 26, 2024. The site of the shooting is about six miles from the Butler Farm Show , where Trump survived an assassination attempt. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)
During the presidential era of Evans City, Pennsylvania, George Washington, later the first president of the United States, escaped an assassination attempt at the age of 21. The site of the shooting is about six miles from the Butler Farm Show. The photo above taken on July 26, 2024. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)
On July 13, 2024, more than 270 years after Washington escaped an assassination attempt, six miles from his camp in Butler County, former President Trump also escaped death when a bullet grazed his right ear.
Cohen did not understand the similarities between the two occasions.
Former President Donald Trump shot a would-be killer in the right ear in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024. (Alex Brandon)
The attack on Washington “very similar to what we just experienced,” he told Fox News Digital, referring to what happened to Trump.
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“Isn’t that crazy?” Cohen says.
Christine Rousselle is a lifestyle journalist at Fox News Digital.
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