 got his first taste of combat. Picture an ambitious young man with an intense craving for adventure, kind of like a colonial version of Luke Skywalker. The royal governor of the colony sent the young Washington and a group of Native Americans on a critical mission to hold a patch of land against the French. It was probably too big a responsibility to put on a 22-year-old's shoulders. Well, during this mission, Washington's men confronted a party led by a French envoy named