Sometimes, all that is left of a soldier in the French and Indian War more than 260 years later is flattened musket balls, chipped buttons, coins and buckles. The recent confirmation of a Westmoreland County battlefield near Fort Ligonier where George Washington had a brush with death by friendly fire provides fresh insight decades in the making. Stories handed down by generations of Ligonier residents, archaeological sleuthing and new technologies have confirmed not only the site for what is