GW was in Williamsburg with Capt. James Mackay of the independent company from South Carolina.  The Virginia Gazette published the “Account by George Washington and James Mackay of the Capitulation of Fort Necessity” on this day, telling the general public how these officers viewed the defeat on 3 July 1754.  To them, it was an “unequal Fight, with an Enemy sheltered behind the Trees, ourselves without Shelter, in Trenches full of Water… From the Numbers of the Enemy, and our Situation, we could not hope for Victory.” GW and Mackay postulated that the French must have lost considerable men in the fight, for they were the first to request parlay.