User:Enclavehunter/The Viscount Has Fallen

1750s

 * 1751 (POD) - George Washington contracts smallpox while accompanying his older half-brother Lawrence to the island of Barbados. He eventually succumbs to the smallpox virus a week later, and is pronounced dead by the local doctor.
 * 1754 - The French and Indian War begins. Colonel Joshua Fry (replacing Washington; didn't die in this TL)) captures Fort Duquense, effectively giving the British complrte control over the Ohio Valley. The victory wouldn't be known by the central governments of Britain and France until five weeks. By then, every French outpost within the valley had been forcefully removed by British Colonial troops. The French wanted the British to leave, and the British wanted the French to leave. In Europe, the Third Silesian War begins between Prussia and Austria.
 * 1775 - General Braddock and Major Fry, a celebrity in both Europe and the Colonies, launch an expedition against the French garrison at Fort Niagra. Known as the Braddock Expedition, Fort Niagra falls to Britain while Fort Bull and Fort Oswego are reinforced.