. History of Tazewell county, Illinois ; together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history; portraits of prominent persons and biographies of representative citizens. History of Illinois ... Digest of state laws. ies would not much longer be deferred. The En-glish Government, in anticipation of a war, urged the Governorof Yirginia to lose no time in building two forts, which wereequipped by arms from England. The French anticipated theEnglish and gathered a considerable force ta defend their Governor det
. History of Tazewell county, Illinois ; together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history; portraits of prominent persons and biographies of representative citizens. History of Illinois ... Digest of state laws. ies would not much longer be deferred. The En-glish Government, in anticipation of a war, urged the Governorof Yirginia to lose no time in building two forts, which wereequipped by arms from England. The French anticipated theEnglish and gathered a considerable force ta defend their Governor determined to send a messenger to the nearestFrench post and demand an explanation. This resolution of theGovernor brought into the history of our country for the first timethe man of all others whom America most loves toJionor, namely,George Washington. He was chosen, although not yet twenty-oneyears of age, as the one to perform this delicate and difiicult five companions he set out on Nov. 10, 1753, and after a per-ilous journey returned Jan. 6, 1754. The struggle commenced andcontinued long, and was bloody and fierce; but on the 10th of Octo-ber, 1765, the ensign of France was replaced on the ramparts ofFort Chartres by tlie flag of Great Britain. This fort was the. GEN. GEORGE ROGERS CLARK. HISTORY OF ILLINOIS. 51 depot of supplies and the place of rendezvous for the united forcesof the French. At this time the colonies of the Atlantic seaboardwere assembled in preliminary congress at New York, dreaming ofliberty and independence for the continent; and Washington, wholed the expedition against the French for the English king, in lessthan ten years was commanding the forces opposed to the Englishtyrant. Illinois, besides being constructively a part of Florida forover one hundred years, during which time no Spaniard set footupon her soil or rested his eyes upon her beautiful plains, for nearlyninety years had been in the actual occupation of the French, theirpuny s
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