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Title: Larned's history of the world : or, seventy centuries of the life of mankind
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Larned, J. N. (Josephus Nelson), 1836-1913
Subjects: World history, Universal Civilization
Publisher: New York City : World Syndicate Company, Inc.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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aded territory, by virtue ofthe interpretation it had given to its charter of1609. It was then that George Washington made hisentrance into history. He had barely reachedmanhood, but was adjutant-general of the militiaof Virginia, and was chosen by Governor Din-widdie to convey a warning to the intrusiveFrench commander, that he had trespassed onEnglish soil. Washington, with a guide, and asmall escort, made his way through the wildernessto Fort Le Bceuf and delivered his message,which, of course, had no effect. On his return hewas appointed to command a force of two hun-dred men, for the support of a working party thatwas sent out, in the spring of 1754, to build a fortat the junction of the Allegheny and the Monon-gahela, where Pittsburgh now stands. The work-ing party reached the chosen ground in advanceof its military support, and was driven off by theFrench, who proceeded to build a fort of theirown, which they called Fort Duquesne. WhenWashington and his men approached the place
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Franklin From the original painting by Jean Baptiste Greuze (172!Library, Boston 1805), the Public The Colonial Congress at Albany 97iv they came into collision with a French scoutingparty, and that encounter opened the conflictthat was decisive of the destiny of the Americanworld. Falling back to Great Meadows, theyoung Virginian built a small fort, which hecalled Fort Necessity, and attempted to hold hisground; but the French brought such numbersof their Indian allies against him that he madeterms with them and was allowed to withdrawhis men. Most of the colonies—New York and Penn-sylvania especially—showed a singular indiffer-ence to these French encroachments; but theBritish government saw the seriousness of the CoIoniaI t 11 i c i • i • congress at move. It called a congress ot colonial commis- Albany,sioners, at Albany, in June, 1754, which arranged I7S4a firmer alliance with the Six Nations, and whichproceeded then to consider the important subjectof colonial union. Ben

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