. History of Pike 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 .. . onger be deferred. The En-glish (jovernmctit, in anticipation of a war, urgetl the (Jovernorof Virginia tcil by arms from England. The French anticij)ated theEnglish and gathered! a considerable force to defend their { Governor determined to send a messenger to the nearestFrench post and demand an
. History of Pike 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 .. . onger be deferred. The En-glish (jovernmctit, in anticipation of a war, urgetl the (Jovernorof Virginia tcil by arms from England. The French anticij)ated theEnglish and gathered! a considerable force to 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 to honor, namely,George Washington. lie was chosen, althougli not yet twenty-oneyears of age, as theoneto i)orform thisdelicatc and diflicult 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 blootly and fierce; but on the 10th of Octo-ber, 1705, the ensign of France was replaced on the ramparts ofFort Chartres by the flag of Great Britain. Tiiis fort was the. GEN. GEORGE ROGERS CLARK. HISTORY OF ILLINOIS. 51 •depot of supplies and the place of rendezvous for the united forcesof the Frencli. 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 voars 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 ]>lains, for nearlyninety years had been in the actual occupation of the French, theirpuny settlements slumbering quietly in colonial dependence on t
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