. The history of our country from its discovery by Columbus to the celebration of the centennial anniversary of its declaration of independence ... ll the colonies were united in feelinga desire to resist the French power in this country. Even weakGeorgia, who had only been settled a little more than twenty years,was ready to do her best with grown up Massachusetts and Vir-ginia. In 1754 an expedition from Virginia, with George Washington as the second in com-mand, was sent to-wards Pittsburg, orwhere Pittsburg isnow built. They werecommanded to builda fort at the junctionof rivers which formt
. The history of our country from its discovery by Columbus to the celebration of the centennial anniversary of its declaration of independence ... ll the colonies were united in feelinga desire to resist the French power in this country. Even weakGeorgia, who had only been settled a little more than twenty years,was ready to do her best with grown up Massachusetts and Vir-ginia. In 1754 an expedition from Virginia, with George Washington as the second in com-mand, was sent to-wards Pittsburg, orwhere Pittsburg isnow built. They werecommanded to builda fort at the junctionof rivers which formthe Ohio, and to fightanyone w^io molestedthem. Before theyhad proceeded far, acompanj^ of Frenchcame, drove themaway, and went onwith the building of Braddocks Head-quarters in Virginia. ^]-jg fQj.^^ ^j^^ UaUlcd it Fort Duquesne. This is wliere Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, now had some fighting about here, and, his superior officer dying,young Washington, then only twenty-two years old, was made thecommander of those forces. In the end he was beaten, and had togo back to Virginia, and this was the opening of the French andIndian FOUR EXPEDITIONS AGAINST THE FRENCH. 161 CHAPTER XXXI. FOUR EXPEDITIONS AGAINST THE FRENCH. Plan of the Campaign. —Braddocks Contempt for American Militia. — George Washingtonin the Expedition.—Braddocks Defeat.—French Neutrals.—Burning of Acadie.—Evangeline. —Sir William Johnson.— King Hendrick killed. After war was really begun over here, England, whom the colo-nists always called the Mother Country, sent over one of theofficers of her army to be the general of all the forces here. Troopswere gathered in from all the colonies, and the sounds of the drumand fife, calling soldiers together, was heard all over the towns andvillages of this new country. When the English general, whosename was Braddock, came to America, he found the colonies allripe for war. The leading warriors all put their heads together andtalked it over,
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