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... English set- tlements . Governor Dinwiddie had sent a com- missioner to remonstrate against these encroach- ments , but his envoy had stopped a hundred and fifty miles short of the French posts , alarmed by the troublous condition of ...
... English set- tlements . Governor Dinwiddie had sent a com- missioner to remonstrate against these encroach- ments , but his envoy had stopped a hundred and fifty miles short of the French posts , alarmed by the troublous condition of ...
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... English wilderness and thereupon Governor Dinwiddie selected for the task George Washing- ton , recently reappointed adjutant - general of the northern division , and major in the Virginian forces . He was a young man for such an under ...
... English wilderness and thereupon Governor Dinwiddie selected for the task George Washing- ton , recently reappointed adjutant - general of the northern division , and major in the Virginian forces . He was a young man for such an under ...
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... last the chiefs deter- mined to stay behind . Nevertheless , the work had been well done , and the important Half - King re mained true to the English cause . Leaving his horses , Washington and Gist then took to ON THE FRONTIER . 65.
... last the chiefs deter- mined to stay behind . Nevertheless , the work had been well done , and the important Half - King re mained true to the English cause . Leaving his horses , Washington and Gist then took to ON THE FRONTIER . 65.
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... English when the Eng- lish surprised them , with the usual backwoods re- sult . The affair has a dramatic interest because it was the first blood shed in a great struggle , and was the beginning of a series of world - wide wars and ...
... English when the Eng- lish surprised them , with the usual backwoods re- sult . The affair has a dramatic interest because it was the first blood shed in a great struggle , and was the beginning of a series of world - wide wars and ...
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... English to go with their arms , exacting nothing but a pledge that for a year they would not come to the Ohio . So ended Washington's first campaign . His friend the Half - King , the celebrated Seneca chief , Thanacarishon , who ...
... English to go with their arms , exacting nothing but a pledge that for a year they would not come to the Ohio . So ended Washington's first campaign . His friend the Half - King , the celebrated Seneca chief , Thanacarishon , who ...
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