This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...west until they reached the Alleghany Mountains. Should they climb these mountains and settle in the Ohio Valley, as some wished to do, they would meet the French. It is clear that a struggle between the French and the English for the possession of the Mississippi Valley must soon come. 137. Message Carried by ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...west until they reached the Alleghany Mountains. Should they climb these mountains and settle in the Ohio Valley, as some wished to do, they would meet the French. It is clear that a struggle between the French and the English for the possession of the Mississippi Valley must soon come. 137. Message Carried by George Washington. In the year 1754 George Washington, then a young man twenty-two years of age, carried the message that opened the conflict. Both sides were ready to fight. It needed but a spark to kindle the fire. The message borne by Washington was the spark that started a blaze of war which spread to all parts of the world. The French were building a chain of forts extending south from Lake Erie, in order to shut out the English from the Ohio Valley. The message from the Governor of Virginia was a protest to the French commander near Lake Erie against their building these forts. According to the British claim, the forts were on Virginia soil. The war which was thus opened in western Pennsylvania is called in America the French and Indian War, hut to other nations it is known as the Seven Years' War. The lighting in America continued from I754 to 1759, but the war in other parts of the world was carried on until 1763, when the treaty which closed it was signed in Paris.. 138. The War in America. It was at Fort Duqucsne that the English first tried to get possession of the Ohio River. This fort had been built by the French at the junction of the Alleghany and Monongahela rivers, which unite to form the Ohio. Here General Braddock, with his English and American soldiers, was badly defeated in a fight with the French and Indians. Braddock himself was killed. Washington also took part in this fight. Franklin, too, had something to do with...
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