A history of the United States . utauqua Lakeand thence the AlleghenyRiver, where formal posses-sion of the country wastaken in the name of LouisXV. of France. Leadenplates with inscriptions as-serting the French claimwere interred at variouspoints along the Ohio andits tributaries. Three yearslater a chain of forts wasbegun along the route takenby Bienville, the first erectedbeing that of Presque Isle,near the present city of movements of theFrench alarmed the English colonists greatly, and, most of all,Governor Dinwiddle of Virginia. This executive was interestedin an American sch
A history of the United States . utauqua Lakeand thence the AlleghenyRiver, where formal posses-sion of the country wastaken in the name of LouisXV. of France. Leadenplates with inscriptions as-serting the French claimwere interred at variouspoints along the Ohio andits tributaries. Three yearslater a chain of forts wasbegun along the route takenby Bienville, the first erectedbeing that of Presque Isle,near the present city of movements of theFrench alarmed the English colonists greatly, and, most of all,Governor Dinwiddle of Virginia. This executive was interestedin an American scheme for settling the Ohio region, through theagency of the so-called Ohio Company, and his colony claimedthe country now threatened by the French. As soon as heheard of the new fort, he dispatched George Washington todemand the withdrawal of the French. Washington was justtwenty-one years old, but he had seen life as a surveyor in thefrontier counties of Virginia, and had learned to commandmen and to understand Indian SiEUR DE Bienville. 1 1 Bom, 1680; died, 1765. Accompanied Iberville to the mouth of the Mis-sissippi, and became director of the colony of Louisiana in 1701; in 1713was appointed lieutenant governor; founded the city of New Orleans; wasremoved from office in 1720; reappointed in 1733; returned to France in 1743. 80 DEVELOPMENT OF THE COLONIES, 1690-1765. [§ 107 107. Washington in the West.—Washington, who was alreadyan adjutant general, took with him only a few companions onhis winter journey of seven hundred and fifty miles throughthe perilous wilderness. He braved numerous dangers, whichhe set down modestly in a journal that is still training as a surveyor enabled him to pick out as a propersite for a fort the spot at the junction of the Allegheny andMonongahela rivers where Port Duquesne was shortly after-ward built by the French, and where Pittsburg now reached Fort Le Boeuf (near the present Waterford,Pennsylvania) and
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