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They wanted washington to remove the french from the region by persuasion or force.
He was an officer in the British army at the time, during the French and Indian war. Among other things he built Fort Necessity.
Robert Dinwiddie sent George Washington to the Ohio country.
General Cornwallis did not surrender personally to George Washington. Instead he sent a deputy to do the job.
Washington was a major in the Virginia militia when he was sent to tell the French to leave the Ohio River Valley.
No, Cornwallis refused to meet with Washington when the British surrendererd at Yorktown, and he was sent home to England without ever having met Washington face to face.
The Declaration of Independence was sent to Washington.