The Jumonville Affair

Who owned the Ohio valley? What were the limits of the French’s incontestable territory? What was the goal of M. de Jumonville’s mission? And did Washington really assassinate him unprovoked?
 
Inquiries like these into the Jumonville affair have long been debated amongst historians, often leading to more questions than answers. In Europe’s race to occupy the American soil, author Marcel Trudel begins, the Ohio valley long remained a forgotten corner... However, in 1754, this overlooked swath of soil within present-day western Pennsylvania became hotly contested. Historians agree that the resulting skirmish, in which a naive George Washington first faced combat and the French commander M. de Jumonville last lived, set the world on fire as the start to the Seven Years’ (French and Indian) War.

In The Jumonville Affair, Trudel details the skirmish’s disputed timeline through careful analysis of primary documents from the French perspective, evoking readers to ask just what happened on that morning of May 28, 1754?
 
Details

• Historical nonfiction
• 36 pages, approx. 6'' x 9'', soft cover
• Text by Marcel Trudel, translated and abridged by Donald H. Kent
• Printed in USA, published by Eastern National