. Book of the Royal blue . e continent and theindependence of the nation. It is anall-important event in our history as adistinct nation, for had that journey notbeen made, the great and decisive con-flict between the two leading nations ofthe world would not at that time havebeen precipitated ; the Lilies of Francewould not have bowed before the RoyalCross of St. George; the expense ofthat great struggle would not have fallenso heavily upon England and she wouldnot have been tempted to further op-press the over-burdened colonists withheavier taxes in order to pay her wardebts. This journey of
. Book of the Royal blue . e continent and theindependence of the nation. It is anall-important event in our history as adistinct nation, for had that journey notbeen made, the great and decisive con-flict between the two leading nations ofthe world would not at that time havebeen precipitated ; the Lilies of Francewould not have bowed before the RoyalCross of St. George; the expense ofthat great struggle would not have fallenso heavily upon England and she wouldnot have been tempted to further op-press the over-burdened colonists withheavier taxes in order to pay her wardebts. This journey of Washington intowestern Pennsylvania, while made inthe interest of England, was but an un-conscious masterstroke In favor of theAmerican colonies which were so soonto be endowed with the power and dig-nity of free and independent the summer of 1753 French aggres-sions in the region now embraced insouthwestern Pennsylvania had so farprogressed as to greatly alarm the col-onists. At the suggestion of the British. THE HEART Ol [Hi Mil QHESIES. THE NEMACOLIN PATH. Council Lieutenant Governor Dinwid-die, of Virginia, sent George Washing-ton over the mountains to warn theFrench to leave the region. On Novem-ber ist of that year, the very day onwhich he received his commission, heset out from Williamsburg, and fifteendays later he left Wills Creek, nowCumberland, on his long and dangerousjourney through the unbroken wilder-ness. He was accompanied by Christo-pher Gist, the celebrated Indian guide weeks for the journey which to-day isaccomplished in hours. After his return from this first jour-ney, it became evident that the Frenchmeant to hold the western region, andthe following year Washington was sentover the mountains by the same routewith a force to drive the French out ofthe region. This expedition ended atthe Great Meadows, a few miles southof the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad west ofthe mountains. It was here the first
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