George Washington was a Founding Father of the United States, the nation’s first president, and a commander of the ...

As a young officer in the French and Indian War, Washington was involved in a devastating friendly fire incident. Military ...

At Fort Ligonier on Friday, excitement was in the air as it unveiled a new exhibit and talked about the ongoing archaeological work surrounding what is called George Washington's "friendly fire ...

In 1758, during the French and Indian War, the future president saved lives by stepping into the middle of a deadly skirmish in Pennsylvania ...

You may think you know some of the history of the French and Indian War and even of Fort Ligonier, but KDKA's Chris DeRose ...

To the future President’s credit, Arkeonews wrote that “Washington, realizing the error, risked his life by galloping through ...

At the eastern edge of Westmoreland County’s Route 30 corridor lies one of the state’s best example of a colonial fort — Fort ...

Four years of digging for artifacts in the Ligonier area have shed new light on a little-known “friendly fire” incident in ...

Years later, he wrote that his life was in as “much jeopardy as it ever had been before or since.” Washington was pursuing a ...

Thanks to a new climate-controlled collections storage room in the basement of the Fort Ligonier Museum, Meghan Budinger will have separate compartments to safely archive the former iron and brass ...

Thousands of visitors are expected to flood the Ligonier Valley during the second weekend of October, whether to enjoy history, crafts, and food at the annual Fort Ligonier Days, or ...