William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and the growth and division of the British Empire, 1708-1778; . LOUISBOURQ MEDALS OF 1758/ 1761] Pitts War Ministry. 133 according to Forbes himself, • an extremely badcollection of broken innkeepers, horse jockeys, andIndian traders. But Forbes was a soldier of un-conquerable determination who looked into all detailshimself, and was well fitted to make an army out ofa mob. Among his chief ofBcers was Colonel Wash-ington, who wished the expedition to take the Vir-ginian Road to Duquesne which Braddock hadused. Forbes, however, decided to make a new roadthrough th
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and the growth and division of the British Empire, 1708-1778; . LOUISBOURQ MEDALS OF 1758/ 1761] Pitts War Ministry. 133 according to Forbes himself, • an extremely badcollection of broken innkeepers, horse jockeys, andIndian traders. But Forbes was a soldier of un-conquerable determination who looked into all detailshimself, and was well fitted to make an army out ofa mob. Among his chief ofBcers was Colonel Wash-ington, who wished the expedition to take the Vir-ginian Road to Duquesne which Braddock hadused. Forbes, however, decided to make a new roadthrough the forest from Pennsylvania. The fort hadbeen the centre of the French intrigues with theIndians which had resulted in so many massacresand marauding expeditions against the English set-tled in the Western frontier; but Forbess task wasmade much easier by the neutrality which three ofthe Indian tribes were persuaded to declare in No-vember. His great difiliculty was in making theroad over the mountains, and he was further im-peded by heavy rain. Bradstreet had delayed thesupphes intended
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