McDowell's mill fort hold the Penn colony's supplies for British General Braddock's campaign against the French in the Pittsburgh area. A road was constructed from that site west. When that campaign failed, the settlers were left defenseless as British troops retreated, and they were forced to organize themselves into militia to form a line of defense for the western part of the colony along the Appalachian Mountains. The fort stood through the burning of farms and fields, assaults by western Indian bands led by French ...
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McDowell's mill fort hold the Penn colony's supplies for British General Braddock's campaign against the French in the Pittsburgh area. A road was constructed from that site west. When that campaign failed, the settlers were left defenseless as British troops retreated, and they were forced to organize themselves into militia to form a line of defense for the western part of the colony along the Appalachian Mountains. The fort stood through the burning of farms and fields, assaults by western Indian bands led by French officers; Pontiac's warriors during his rebellion; regional starvation and distress; the Black Boys' assault on nearby British Fort Loudon, long before events at Boston; and the revolutionary war with a number of men who had served at the fort enlisted as officers in the Continental Army through the entire length of that war.
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