What to see in America . hat are mixed with it. A superlatively important American industrial center isPittsburg. It occupies the tongue of land between theIMonongahela and Alleghany rivers, which there unite toform the Ohio. George Washington established the locationof the city in November, 1753, when, at the age of twenty-one,acting as a government agent, he came thither and decidedit was the best placein that part of thecountry for a he returned toVirginia a force ofsoldiers and work-men was promptlydispatched to thewilderness and thefort was begun. Butin x\pril there camedown th
What to see in America . hat are mixed with it. A superlatively important American industrial center isPittsburg. It occupies the tongue of land between theIMonongahela and Alleghany rivers, which there unite toform the Ohio. George Washington established the locationof the city in November, 1753, when, at the age of twenty-one,acting as a government agent, he came thither and decidedit was the best placein that part of thecountry for a he returned toVirginia a force ofsoldiers and work-men was promptlydispatched to thewilderness and thefort was begun. Butin x\pril there camedown the Alleghanyfrom Canada one thousand French and Indians with eighteer^cannon in a flotilla of sixty bateaux and three hundred canoes,and the unfinished fort surrendered. The French completedit and named it Duquesne in honor of the governor of of the next year came, and Gen. Braddock, withBritish and colonial troops, made his way through the forestfrom Virginia to a spot about eight miles from the fort on the. Moravian Church, Bethlehem 124 What to See in America north bank of the Monongahela, where now is the busysmoke-belching manufacturing city that bears his French and Indians attacked the marching columnsthere, and about three quarters of the force was killed ordisabled. Braddock was fatally wounded, and Washington,who was one of his aides, had two of the horses that he rodekilled, and four bullets passed through his clothes. Duringthe disorderly retreat of the vanquished their leader grave is on the National Pike near Ohiopyle in the wildand rugged valley of the Youghiogheny. Three years later,when another English • expedition was sent against FortDuquesne, the French blew up the fortifications and with-drew. A new fort was erected to which was given the nameof the British prime minister, Pitt. A blockhouse whichwas part of a later and larger Fort Pitt survives. The first railroad across the Alleghanies reached Pittsburgin 1847, and since t
Size: 1862px × 1342px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorjohnsonc, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookyear1919
