A history of the American people . h put anequal fleet to sea to intercept them, the Frenchmen gotinto the St. Lawrence with a loss of but two of their ships,which had strayed from the fleet and been found bythe English befogged and bewildered off the Americancoast. The scene was set for war both north and General Edward Braddock commanded theregiments sent to Virginia, and was commissionedto be commander-in-chief in America. He thereforecalled the principal colonial governors to a conference atAlexandria, his headquarters. By the middle of Aprilfive had come: Robert Dinwiddie. of
A history of the American people . h put anequal fleet to sea to intercept them, the Frenchmen gotinto the St. Lawrence with a loss of but two of their ships,which had strayed from the fleet and been found bythe English befogged and bewildered off the Americancoast. The scene was set for war both north and General Edward Braddock commanded theregiments sent to Virginia, and was commissionedto be commander-in-chief in America. He thereforecalled the principal colonial governors to a conference atAlexandria, his headquarters. By the middle of Aprilfive had come: Robert Dinwiddie. of course, the gov-ernor of Virginia; Robert Hunter Morris, whose thank-less task it was to get war votes out of the Pennsylvania!!assembly of Quakers and lethargic German farmers;Horatio Sharpe, the brave and energetic gentlemanwho was governor of Maryland; James DeLaneev, thepeoples governor, of New York; and William Shirley,governor of Massachusetts, past sixty, but as strenuousas Dinwiddie, and eager for the field though he had85. COMMON UNDERTAKINGS been bred a lawyer,—every inch a gentleman andpolitician, it was said. It was he who had done mostto organize and expedite the attack on Louisbourgwhich had succeeded so handsomely ten years ago(1745). He would at any rate not fail for lack of self-confidence. The conference planned an attack onNiagara, to be led by Shirley himself, to cut the Frenchoff from Duquesne; an attack on Crown Point, to be ledby Colonel William Johnson, of New York, whom theMohawks would follow, to break the hold of the Frenchon Champlain; an attack upon Beausejour, in Acadia,under the leadership of Lieutenant-Colonel Monckton,of the Kings regulars; and a movement, under the com-mand of General Braddock himself straight throughthe forests against Duquesne, by the way Washingtonhad cut to Great Meadows. It would have been much better had General Brad-dock chosen a route farther to the north, where thePennsylvania!! farmers of the frontier had begun toma
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