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all-see the whole Alleghenies Allegheny mountains arrived bark battle best of evidence Braam Braddock's Braddock's defeat canoes Captain Colonel Washington Com'd commander Contrecoeur coureur de bois dian Dinwiddie's Duquesne embankment embassy English envoy erect ernor fifty square rods five miles forests Fort Duquesne Fort Necessity Forts of Pennsylvania French aggression French force Frontier Forts George Washington Gist's Governor Dinwiddie Half King Half-King high ground House of Burgesses hundred improbable Indian trail ington irregular square Joncaire Journal Jumonville Jumonville's knew land Laurel Hill letter Lewis gives little army Loggstown loop MSN Mackaye Major Washington Meadows Monongahela mound B E Mount Braddock mountain Necessity night Ohio Company Orders palisades Piere rain River Riviere aux Boeufs road ROBERT DINWIDDIE sent side Six Nations Sparks touch the brook triangle A F B valley Venango Villiers Wash West Will's Creek wrapped in cloudy Wyandots young Colonel youth Washington
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Page 1 - I intreat you Sir, not to doubt one Moment but that I am determined to conform myself to them with all the Exactness and Resolution which can be expected from the best Officer.
Page 8 - In regard to the journal, I can only observe in general, that I kept no regular one during that expedition: rough minutes of occurrences I certainly took; and find them as certainly, and strangely metamorphosed: some parts left out, which I remember were entered, .and many things added, that never were thought of; the names of men and things egregiously miscalled ; and the whole of what I saw Englished, is very incorrect and nonsensical...
Page 1 - Thing has passed which can be reputed an Act of Hostility, or that is contrary to the Treaties which subsist between the two Crowns ; the Continuation whereof as much interests, and is as pleasing to us, as the English.
Page 23 - I fortunately escaped without any wound; for the right wing, where I stood, was exposed to, and received all the enemy's fire ; and it was the part where the man was killed and the rest wounded. / heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.
Page 33 - Canadians herein before mentioned. We on our part declare that we shall give an escort to send back in safety the two officers who promise us our French in two months and a half at the latest.