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... French aggressions had continued , and French soldiers and traders were working their way up from the South and down from the North , bullying and cajoling the Indians by turns , taking possession of the Ohio country , and selecting ...
... French aggressions had continued , and French soldiers and traders were working their way up from the South and down from the North , bullying and cajoling the Indians by turns , taking possession of the Ohio country , and selecting ...
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... its way to Logs- town . Here they spent some days among the In- dians , whose leaders Washington got within his grasp after much speech - making ; and here , too , he met some French deserters from the South , and 64 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
... its way to Logs- town . Here they spent some days among the In- dians , whose leaders Washington got within his grasp after much speech - making ; and here , too , he met some French deserters from the South , and 64 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
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... French outpost . The French officers asked him to sup with them . The wine flowed freely , the tongues of the hosts were loos- ened , and the young Virginian , temperate and hard - headed , listened to all the conversation , and noted ...
... French outpost . The French officers asked him to sup with them . The wine flowed freely , the tongues of the hosts were loos- ened , and the young Virginian , temperate and hard - headed , listened to all the conversation , and noted ...
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... French Indians lay in wait for them and tried to murder them , and Gist , like a true frontiersman , was for shooting the scoundrel whom they captured . But Washington stayed his hand , and they gave the savage the slip and pressed on ...
... French Indians lay in wait for them and tried to murder them , and Gist , like a true frontiersman , was for shooting the scoundrel whom they captured . But Washington stayed his hand , and they gave the savage the slip and pressed on ...
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... French , had been sent out by the wise authorities to build a fort at the junc- tion of the Alleghany and Monongahela , on the admirable site selected by the keen eye of Wash- ington . There Trent left his men and returned to Will's ...
... French , had been sent out by the wise authorities to build a fort at the junc- tion of the Alleghany and Monongahela , on the admirable site selected by the keen eye of Wash- ington . There Trent left his men and returned to Will's ...
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