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The French detachment proved to be only about fifty men, so Washington advanced on May 28 with a small force of Virginians and Indian allies to ambush them.[31][e] What took place, known as the Battle of Jumonville Glen or the Jumonville affair, was disputed, but French forces were killed outright with muskets and hatchets. French commander Joseph Coulon de Jumonville, who carried a diplomatic message for the British to evacuate, was killed. French forces found Jumonville and some of his men dead and scalped and assumed Washington was responsible.[33] Washington blamed his translator for not communicating the French intentions.[34] Dinwiddie congratulated Washington for his victory over the French.[35] This incident ignited the French and Indian War, which later became part of the larger Seven Years' War.[36]