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Braddock's Road And Three Relative Papers - Historic Highways Of America - Volume IV
Braddock's Road And Three Relative Papers Historic Highways Of America Volume IV Author:Archer Butler Hulbert HISTORIC HIGHWAYS OF AMERICA VOLUME 4 Braddocks Road AND THREE RELATIVE PAPERS BY ARCHER BUTLER JHUJLBERT WUk Maps and Illustrations THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY CLEVELAND, OHIO 1903 COPYRXGHT, 1903 BY ARTHUR H. CLAR. K COMPANY RIGHTS RESERVED CONTENTS PAGE PREPACK . . . . . . .11 I. ROUTES OF THE FRENCH AND ENG LISH WESTWARD . . - 15 II. THE VIR... more »GINIA CAMPAIGN . . 30 III. FROM ALEXANDRIA TO FORT CUM BERLAND . . . . .61 IV. A SEAMANS JOURNAL . . - 79 V. THE BATTLE OF THE MONONGAHELA 108 VI. A DESCRIPTION OF THE BACKWOODS 136 VII. SPARKS AND ATKINSON ON BRAD DOCKS ROUTE .... 166 VIII. BRADDOCKS ROAD IN HISTORY . 191 ILLUSTRATIONS I. BRADDOCKS GRAVE . Frontispiece II. ENGLISH AND FRENCH ROUTES TO THE OHIO 1756 . . . .21 III. PLAN OF FORT CUMBERLAND FEB RUARY 1755 . . . - 27 IV. VIEW OF FORT CUMBERLAND 1755 . 45 V. MAP OF BRADDOCKS ROAD ABOUT 1759 69 VI. BRADDOCKS ROAD NEAR FROST BURG, MARYLAND . . . 148 VII. MIDDLETONS MAP OF BRADDOCKS ROAD 1847 - I 74 VIII. BRADDOCKS ROAD IN THE WOODS NEAR FARMINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA 200 PREFACE THE French were invariably defeated by the British on this continent because the latter overcame natural obstacles which the former blindly trusted as insurmountable. The French made a league with the Alleghenies and Wash ington and Braddock and Forbes conquered the Alleghenies the French, later, blindly trusted the crags at Louisbourg and Que bec and the dauntless Wolfe, in both instances, accomplished the seemingly impossible. The building of Braddocks Road in 1755 across the Alleghenies was the first signifi cant token in the West of the British grit which finally overcame. Few roads ever cost so much, ever amounted to so little at first, and then finally played so important a part in the development of any continent. A. B. EL MARIETTA, O., December 8, 1902. Braddock s Road and. Three Relative Papers« less