. Book of the Royal blue . THK UKAirr 11 Till AMI UIIKMKS. THE PATH. Council Lieutenant Governor Dinwid-die, of Virginia, sent George Washing-ton over the mountains to warn theFrench to leave the region. On Novem-ber I St of that year, the very day onwhich he received his commission, heset out from Williamsburg, and fifteendays later he left Wills Creek, nowCumberland, on his long and dangerousjourney through the unbroken wilder-ness. He was accompanied by Christo-pher Gist, the celebrated Indian guide weeks for the journey which to-daj isaccomplished in hours. After his return from
. Book of the Royal blue . THK UKAirr 11 Till AMI UIIKMKS. THE PATH. Council Lieutenant Governor Dinwid-die, of Virginia, sent George Washing-ton over the mountains to warn theFrench to leave the region. On Novem-ber I St of that year, the very day onwhich he received his commission, heset out from Williamsburg, and fifteendays later he left Wills Creek, nowCumberland, on his long and dangerousjourney through the unbroken wilder-ness. He was accompanied by Christo-pher Gist, the celebrated Indian guide weeks for the journey which to-daj isaccomplished in hours. After his return from this first jour-ney, it became evident that the Frenchmeant to hold the western region, andthe following year Washington was sentover the mountains by the same routewith a force to drive the Prench out ofthe region. This expedition ended atthe Great Meadows, a few miles southof the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad west ofthe mountains. It was here the first. INDI.\N and interpreter, six other white men andtwo friendl) Indians. The route of their journey up WillsCreek and down the Youghiogheny wasvery nearly that now traversed by theBaltimore & Ohio Railroad. But what acontrast is presented between the regionas it appeared then, and now. Whereprosperous towns and rich fields nowappear ail was then covered by forests ;and through the wild woodlands rangedthe savage bands. Then it required battle of the French and Indian war wasfought, and nearby the opening skirmishof that great struggle which extended toboth sides of the Atlantic and which wasreally the signal for two great revolu-tions : for the one which gave to Amer-ica her independence, and for the strug-gle which swept away the feudal institu-tions of Europe. It was while the forces of Washing-ton lay at Fort Necessity, which theyhad constructed at the Great Meadows, TIFF X7:.]/.ICO/,IX rATH. this opening skirmish occurred. Wash-ington received information that a
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