. The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania, or, Its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, populary described . one miles from Greensburg, and ten from Pittsburg, wepass the scene of Gen. Braddocks battle with the French and Indians,which took place in 1755. The entire region of country watered bythe Ohio and its tributaries had long been claimed by the French,upon the strength of the original discoveries of La Salle. They ac-cordingly built forts at various points along the Ohio, the Alleghanyand Monongahela, and established themselves in the friendship ofthe Indians the
. The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania, or, Its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, populary described . one miles from Greensburg, and ten from Pittsburg, wepass the scene of Gen. Braddocks battle with the French and Indians,which took place in 1755. The entire region of country watered bythe Ohio and its tributaries had long been claimed by the French,upon the strength of the original discoveries of La Salle. They ac-cordingly built forts at various points along the Ohio, the Alleghanyand Monongahela, and established themselves in the friendship ofthe Indians then living along those rivers. In the meantime, theauthorities of Virginia and Pennsylvania conceiving that the countryrightfully belonged to the British Crown, and constituted a portionof their respective colonies, took measures to oppose the further occu-pancy of the French. In the prosecution of this work, the fort atPittsburg was commenced in 1754, under the authority of the Gover-nor of Virginia; but, before its completion, the French captured it,and held it under the name of Fort Du Quesne, until 1758, when it PORT PITT 171. BATTLE OP BRADDOCKs FIELD. was abandoned to Gen. Forbes. Soon after it was enlarged and im-proved by Gen. Stanwix, and named Fort Pitt, in honor of the distin-guished British statesman, and from which Pittsburg subsequentlytook its name. It thus remained in possession of the English untilthe commencement of the Revolutionary war, when it was seized andever after held by the Americans—including, also, the whole sur-rounding country—the claim of Virginia in the meantime havingbeen amicably arranged. It was in view of the incursions of the French, that General Wash-ington, in 1753, then a mere youth, was dispatched by the Governorof Virginia on an expedition to the head waters of the Ohio, to ascer-tain and report the state of the country. This was one of the mostperilous journeys that could have been undertaken—his path laidthrough immense wildernes
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