. La vera storia di George Washington : chiamato il padre del suo paese. YOUNG WASHINGTON A BARBADOES. 44 COME IL SURVEYOR DIVENNE UN SOLDATO, la parte occidentale dell'America su una linea che va da Mont-Real a New Orleans. Per permettere loro di tenere e occuparsis paese, i francesi avevano costruito una catena di sessanta forts.If si guarda sulla mappa e scegliere le città di Montreal, Ogdensburg, Detroit, Toledo, Fort Wayne, Vincennes, Natchez e New Orleans, che sono cresciuti fino a quando una volta certi di questi forti francesi si fermò, si può vedere che cos’è un vasttratto di paese Francesaid che ha posseduto e wasready per difendere, io

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. The true story of George Washington : called the father of his country. YOUNG WASHINGTON AT BARBADOES. 44 HOW THE SURVEYOR BECAME A SOLDIER. the Western part of America on a line running from Mont-real to New Orleans. To enable them to hold and occupythis country, the Frenchmen had built a chain of sixty forts.If you look on the map and pick out the cities of Montreal, Ogdensburg, Detroit, Toledo, Fort Wayne, Vincennes, Natchez and New Orleans, which have grown upwhere once certain ofthese French forts stood, you can see what a vasttract of country Francesaid she owned and wasready to defend, in NorthAmerica. So when the OhioCompany began to sendout surveyors and road-builders into their landsin the West, the French-men grew excited and saidthat the Englishmen weretrying to steal their land.They prepared to defendwhat they claimed to own, and made ready to build a new chainof forts, from a spot where the city of Erie now stands onLake Erie, southward to the Ohio River Now Lawrence Washington had been the American. FRANCE IN POSSESSION. HOW THE SURVEYOR BECAME A SOLDIER. 45 manager of the Ohio Company. When, therefore, the French-men began to grow warlike and Virginia talked of fightingback, Lawrence had secured from the royal governor of thecolony of Virginia, whose name was Dinwiddle, an appoint-ment for his brother George, then a boy of nineteen. Thisposition gave George Washington charge of the militia-men who might be called upon, in the country about MountVernon, to fight against the French. After Lawrence Washingtons death in 1752, and whileGeorge, who had charge of his affairs, was looking aftermatters at the saddened home at Mount Vernon, Dinwiddle, the royal governor of Virginia, was getting ready to dealwith the Frenchmen who were becoming more and moretroublesome in the Ohio country. It was necessary to dosomething at once to stop their insolence, for they wereannoying the English settlers and stirring up the Indianswho had been friendly to the English. Ind

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• bookcentury1800
• bookdecade1890
• bookidcu3192403274
• bookyear1895