A history of the United States . ^ ^ £^^.-,J^7^r^. Waynes Dispatch to Washington. Natchez, Kaskaskia,and Cahokia on theMississippi. Butthese fortified ham-lets since the fall ofQuebec had been con-trolled by Britishgarrisons. Thoughthe region was thusunder British do-minion, it wasclaimed by Massa-chusetts, Connecti-cut, New York, Vir-ginia, Maryland, North and South Carolina, and Georgia byauthority of their original charters. The possession of thewhole region was therefore involved in the war. 200. Settlements in Tennessee and Kentucky. — Virginia andNorth Carolina were the first to send exp
A history of the United States . ^ ^ £^^.-,J^7^r^. Waynes Dispatch to Washington. Natchez, Kaskaskia,and Cahokia on theMississippi. Butthese fortified ham-lets since the fall ofQuebec had been con-trolled by Britishgarrisons. Thoughthe region was thusunder British do-minion, it wasclaimed by Massa-chusetts, Connecti-cut, New York, Vir-ginia, Maryland, North and South Carolina, and Georgia byauthority of their original charters. The possession of thewhole region was therefore involved in the war. 200. Settlements in Tennessee and Kentucky. — Virginia andNorth Carolina were the first to send explorers and settlersinto this distant region. Before the outbreak of the war,Daniel Boone ^ had explored the Kentucky Eiver, and Virginiasurveyors had gone down the Ohio as far as the present site ofLouisville, which was soon after named in honor of our newally, the reigning king of France, Louis XVI. Virginiansentered the country as settlers, and their sympathy with therevolutionary movement was so intense that they named one of 1 Born, 1735; d
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