A history of the American people . ^ heard that news, that war had begun. YoungWashington had forced the hands of the statesmen. MERCHANTS EXCHANGE, NEW YORK, 1752-1799 in London and Paris, and all Europe presently tookfire from the flame he had kindled. In July, Washing-ton was obliged to retire. He had only three hundredand fifty men, all told, at the rudely intrenched campwhich he had constructed in the open glade of GreatMeadows as the best place to await reinforcements;and in July the French were upon him with a forceof seven hundred. All day he fought (3 July, 1754),and in a drenching ra
A history of the American people . ^ heard that news, that war had begun. YoungWashington had forced the hands of the statesmen. MERCHANTS EXCHANGE, NEW YORK, 1752-1799 in London and Paris, and all Europe presently tookfire from the flame he had kindled. In July, Washing-ton was obliged to retire. He had only three hundredand fifty men, all told, at the rudely intrenched campwhich he had constructed in the open glade of GreatMeadows as the best place to await reinforcements;and in July the French were upon him with a forceof seven hundred. All day he fought (3 July, 1754),and in a drenching rain, the French firing from the83 A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE edges of the woods, his own men in their shallow, flood-ed trenches in the open; but by night he knew he mustgive way. The French offered him an honorablecapitulation, and the next day let him go untouched,men and arms, with such stores as he could carry. It was a bad beginning at winning the West fromthe French; and all the worse because it showed howweak the English were at such work. The dangerwas not Virginias alone; it touched all the Englishin America;
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