The History of England - a Study in Political Evolution

re was no one to lead them out to war, and if this fact

ould not do. His brother wrote him thus: "Our hopes rest on you, dea

old in plain words all that he had borne, and

ll be glad to serve it, but not on

ld to keep out of harm's way, but if he should have a call to drive the foes from the land of his birth,

to Wash-ing-ton that he had been made chief of all the troops in

he drew up a plan of his own and set men to work it out, and went out from time to time to see how they got on with

Green-way Court. He was fond of the chase, and knew how to run the sly fox to the ground. The red-man was a sort of fox, and Fair-fax was

at Will's Creek that a band of red-men were on the war-path with f

aste to Wash-ing-ton, who had been cal

d to all the troops near his home to ar

he towns-folks fled to the west side of the Blue Ridge. In the height of this sti

it was his wish to take the field at once and go out and put them to flight. But h

were brought out, and smiths set to work to

ir place. One of these was put in the lock, so that when it struck a piece of steel it

en thought of, and flint stones we

ts, and for food with which to feed all

with the French. One of their chiefs, named Ja-cob, laughed at forts that were buil

quesne, and a band of brave white men, with John Arm-strong and Hugh

red-men, led by the fierce chief Ja-cob, who chose to die ere he would yield, made a strong fight, but in the

Gen-er-al Forbes, who was in charge of the whole force, was on his way from Phil-a-del-phi-a, but his march was a slow one as he was not in good health. The plan was when he came to move on the Fr

Lou-is-berg and the isle of Cape Bre-ton, which is at the mouth of the Gulf of St. Law-rence. Forbes was to move on Fort Du-quesne, and was much too slow to suit Wash-ing-ton who was in haste to start. His men had worn out their old clothes and were in great need of new ones, which they

near the great Lakes at this time, as I wis

d was now on Forbes' staff: "I find him fixed to lead you a new way to the O-hi-o, through a road each inch of which must be cut when we have scarce time left to tread the old track, which is kn

rd work on the new road with a gain of less than three-score miles, when the whole force might

o build a fort. Some men in charge of Ma-jor Grant went forth as scouts. At dusk they drew near a fort, and set

for a sign of fear, and were bold and proud, and quite sure that th

he fort, and poured their fire on the King's troops. On their right and left flanks

d run chill. Ma-jor Lew-is fought hand to hand with a "brave" whom he laid dead at his feet. Red-skins came up at once to take the white-man's scalp, and there was but one way i

e was at once put in charge of a large force, who were to lead the van, serve as scouts, a

ads, that snow would be on the ground ere they could reach the fort. But from those of the French that they had seized in the la

eir minds to push on. They took up their march at o

was strewn with the bones of those who had fought with Grant and w

up to it with great care, for they thought the French would

ft to take care of them-selves. So when the Eng-lish were one day's march from the fort, the French stole

on No-vem-ber 25, 1758, Wash-ing-ton, with his van-guard, marched in and placed the Brit-ish

d-skins were quick to make friends with those who held sway, and

ield when this war came to an end, and in De-cem

, and the strain on his mind had been so great that h