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Identifier: historyofunited01andr (find matches)
Title: History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Andrews, Elisha Benjamin, 1844-1917 James, James Alton, 1864-1962
Subjects: United States -- History
Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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The Ambuscade. 1754) THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR 353 sylvania. As commissioner to settle thedispute George Washington was sent out. The future Father of his Country wasof humble origin. Born in WestmorelandCounty, Va., about ten in ye morning ofye nth day of February, 1731-32, as re-corded in his mothers Bible, he had beenan orphan from his earliest youth. Hiseducation was of the slenderest. At six-teen he became a land surveyor, leading alife of the roughest sort, beasts, savages,and hardy frontiersmen his constant com-panions, sleeping under the sky and cook-ine his own coarse food. No better mancould have been chosen to thread now theAlleghany trail. Washington reported the French stronglyposted in western Pennsylvania on landsclaimed by the Ohio Company. Virginiafitted out an expedition to dislodge them.Of this Washington commanded the ad-vance. Meeting at Great Meadows theFrench under Contrecceur, commander ofFort Du Quesne (Pittsburgh), he was atfirst victorious, but the French we

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