I think the answer is that he was defeated at Fort Necessity because on the internet it says that he surrendered the fort to the french and it was destroyed by the french
At first, Theodore Roosevelt, who was commander-in-chief from 1901 to 1909, seemed an unlikely candidate for the 1912 presidential election. After backing his close friend William Howard Taft to serve as his successor, he disappeared on an extended hunting trip to Africa.
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Were both assassinated and were leaders that were called ambitious