Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . ng, and at a given signal the gar-rison made a sudden sally from the fort against the Highlanders, whilethe Indians opened a heavy fire upon them from their place of conceal-ment. The regulars were quickly thrown into confusion, and their officerswere found incapable of conducting such a mode of warfare. Attracted bythe firing. Major Lewis, with a company of Virginians, hastened to thescene of the encounter, and by engaging the enemy hand-to-hand enabledthe regulars to save them
Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . ng, and at a given signal the gar-rison made a sudden sally from the fort against the Highlanders, whilethe Indians opened a heavy fire upon them from their place of conceal-ment. The regulars were quickly thrown into confusion, and their officerswere found incapable of conducting such a mode of warfare. Attracted bythe firing. Major Lewis, with a company of Virginians, hastened to thescene of the encounter, and by engaging the enemy hand-to-hand enabledthe regulars to save themselves from a general massacre. The enterprise was on the point of being abandoned when fortunatelythree prisoners were brought in, from whom Washington drew the infor-mation that the garrison of Fort Duquesne was reduced to a very smallforce, that the Indians had all deserted the French, and that the expectedreinforcements and supplies from Canada had not arrived. It was evident^at a well-executed effort would result in the capture of the fort. It was then decided to continue the expedition. A force of tweiify. WASHINGTON PLANTING THK FLAG ON FORT DUQUESNK. GEORGE WASHINGTON. ^3 five hundred picked troops was placed under Washingtons command, andhe was ordered to push forward as rapidly as possible, and prepare theroad for the advance of the main arm3^ Washington was ably secondedin his movements, and the march was pressed with such vigor that in tendays the army arrived in the vicinity of Fort Duquesne. The French now saw that the fall of the fort was inevitable. Theyhad but five hundred men, and Bradstreets capture of Fort Fronteuac hadcut them off from the reinforcements and supplies they had expected fromCanada. Unwilling to stand a siege, the result of which was certain, theyabandoned the fort on the night of the twenty-fourth of November, andembarking in flat boats, floated down the Ohio to join their countrymenin the valley of the Mississippi. On the morning of the twen
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