. Pittsburgh and Allegheny in the centennial year . CITY HALL, COUBT HOUSE, PITTSBURGH. In the Centennial Year. 17 ?of a portion of GuqI Forbes forces uuder Major (Jraiit on the 14tli of Septeinlier,1758, is another battle scene in the military tableaux that illustrate the citys first actual conflict upon the area, where the city now stands, gave title to alocality known as Grants Hill, which, until about the year 1840, retained, to agreat extent, its original configuration and elevation, and its summit was thesite of the reservoir for the water supply of the city. In af
. Pittsburgh and Allegheny in the centennial year . CITY HALL, COUBT HOUSE, PITTSBURGH. In the Centennial Year. 17 ?of a portion of GuqI Forbes forces uuder Major (Jraiit on the 14tli of Septeinlier,1758, is another battle scene in the military tableaux that illustrate the citys first actual conflict upon the area, where the city now stands, gave title to alocality known as Grants Hill, which, until about the year 1840, retained, to agreat extent, its original configuration and elevation, and its summit was thesite of the reservoir for the water supply of the city. In afier years the hill wasgradually graded away, and although a rising grade of the streets that intersectitlie locality indicate ascending ground, nothing remains to mark the hill where,in the early gray September moruing, The Highlander with kilt and naked knee Sent down his challenge to the sleeping waked them with his pipe and reveille. This attack of Maj. Grant is characterized by Genl Washington in a letter tothe Governor of Virginia as a very ill-conceived,
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