A history of the American people . +Arf1xrt4tJtou£U v-t-Z-r KnlSl Rl niNWlDDIK Fort Le Bccuf; and Washington tried the enduranceeven of the veteran frontiersman who accompaniedhim by the forced marches he made thither and backagain through the dense and frosted woods, across80. ENGLISH COLONIES, 1 < tflfi NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY A«TOK, LKNOX COMMON UNDERTAKINGS frozen streams, and through the pathless, storm-beatentangles of deep forests, where there was hardly so muchas the track of a bison for their horses to walk in. Hereported that the French had received him very gra-ciously; but had c
A history of the American people . +Arf1xrt4tJtou£U v-t-Z-r KnlSl Rl niNWlDDIK Fort Le Bccuf; and Washington tried the enduranceeven of the veteran frontiersman who accompaniedhim by the forced marches he made thither and backagain through the dense and frosted woods, across80. ENGLISH COLONIES, 1 < tflfi NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY A«TOK, LKNOX COMMON UNDERTAKINGS frozen streams, and through the pathless, storm-beatentangles of deep forests, where there was hardly so muchas the track of a bison for their horses to walk in. Hereported that the French had received him very gra-ciously; but had claimed the Ohio as their own, hadmade no pretence that they would abandon it becausethe English bade them, and clearly meant to establishthemselves where they were. Juniors among theirofficers had told him so very plainly as he sat with themafter dinner in a which they had seized froman English trader. He was back at Williamsburg with his report by themiddle of January, 1754; and the next month a smallbody of frontiersmen was hurried forward to make aclearing at the forks of the Ohio and begin the construc-tion of fortifications there ere spring came, and theFrench. The French came, nevertheless, all too the 17th of April their canoes swarmed th
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