A first book in American history, with special reference to the lives and deeds of great Americans . io6 YOUNG GEORGE -fi^ WASHINGTON AND VAN BRAAM. of a Dutch-man namedVan Braam[brahm]. Thepeople in Vir-ginia and theother colonieswere lookingforward to awar with theFrench, whoin that day hadcolonies in Can-ada and Louisiana. They claimed the country west of theAlleghany Mountains. The English colonists had spreadover most of the country east of the mountains, and theywere beginning to cross the Alleghanies. But the Frenchbuilt forts on the west side of the mountains, and stirredu
A first book in American history, with special reference to the lives and deeds of great Americans . io6 YOUNG GEORGE -fi^ WASHINGTON AND VAN BRAAM. of a Dutch-man namedVan Braam[brahm]. Thepeople in Vir-ginia and theother colonieswere lookingforward to awar with theFrench, whoin that day hadcolonies in Can-ada and Louisiana. They claimed the country west of theAlleghany Mountains. The English colonists had spreadover most of the country east of the mountains, and theywere beginning to cross the Alleghanies. But the Frenchbuilt forts on the west side of the mountains, and stirredup the Indians to prevent the English settlers from comingover into the rich valley of the Ohio River. The governor of Virginia resolved to send an officerto warn the French that they were on English was so fit to go on this hard and dangerous errandas the brave young Major Washington, who knew boththe woods and the ways of the Indians ? So Washingtonset out with a few hardy frontiersmen. When at length,after crossing swollen streams and rough mountains, hegot over to the Ohio River, where all was wilderness, hecal
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