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Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ed post of Fort Front-enac gave them the command of Lake On-tario, which they further secured by con-structing armed vessels for the navigation ofthe lake. They retained their hold uponLake Erie by strengthening Fort Niagara,which La Salle had built at the foot of thatlake. They entered into treaties with theShawnees,the Delawares and other powerfultribes between the lake and the Ohio, andsteadily pushed their way eastward towardsthe mountains. They began their advanceinto the valley of the Ohio by building afort at Presque Isle, now the city of Erie, inPennsylvania, another on French Creek, onthe site of the present town of Waterford,and a third on the site of the present town ofFranklin, at the confluence of French Creekwith the Alleghany. These rapid advances eastward alarmed theEnglish government, which instructed thegovernor of Virginia to address a remon-strance to the French authorities and towarn them of the consequences which mustresult from their intrusion into the territory
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SCENE IN THE ALLEGHENY MOUNTAINS. 281 282 THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR. of the English. To do this it was necessaryfor the governor to despatch his communica-tion to the nearest French post by the handsof some messenger of sufficient resolution toovercome .the natural dangers of such anundertaking, and of sufficient intelligence togain information respecting the designs andstrength of the French; and Governor Din-widdle was somewhat at loss to find such aperson. Fortunately the man needed was athand, and the attention of the governorbeing called to him, his excellency decidedto intrust him with the delicate and danger-ous mission. The Coming Hero* The person selected for this task was ayoung man in the twenty-second year of hisage, George Washington by name. He wasa native of Westmoreland County, Virginia,where he was born on the twenty-second ofFebruary, 1732. He was a great-grandsonof the Colonel John Washington, whom wehave noticed as the leader of an expeditionagainst the Indians in

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