The terrible battle at Great Meadows, Pennsylvania, was a turning point for the young Lt. Col. Washington, shaping the leader he would become. A third of his men died fighting the French. This thought-provoking narrative examines the significance of Washington's actual dispatches, along with recent archeological findings from the battle that started the French and Indian Wars. "A compelling and satisfying story. Drummond's brisk, unaffected delivery matches [the] unromanticized portrait of the great Founding Father."—AudioFile