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	Battle of Fort Washington
		Fort Washington was handicapped by its relatively small size and lack of an interior water supply.
		During the construction of neighboring Fort Lee in the summer of 1776, General Israel Putnam suggested that old ships be sunk in the river in the vicinity of the forts to provide additional obstacles to the British Navy.
		Washington’s suggestion that the fort be abandoned was rejected by the confident Greene, who left Colonel Robert Mcgaw of Pennsylvania in command of the installation, and joined the staff at headquarters in New Jersey.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1285.html (954 words)

	Fort Duquesne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fort Duquesne was a fort established by the French in 1754, at the junction of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers in what is now downtown Pittsburgh in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
		Work began on the fort on February 17 and Washington, who had been promoted to Lt. Colonel, left on April 2 as part of a small force with the dual purpose of constructing a road and defending the fort upon their arrival.
		The French held Fort Duquesne during the French and Indian War, and it became one of the focal points for that war because of its strategic river location in disputed territory.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fort_Duquesne (624 words)

	Fort Duquesne John Forbes The Forbes road 1758 French and Indian war (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Instead of marching like Braddock, at one stretch to Fort Duquesne, burdened with a long and cumbrous baggage-train, it was the plan of Forbes to push on by slow stages, establishing fortified magazines as he went, and at last, when within easy distance of the fort, to advance upon it with all his force.
		Four hundred men were posted along the hill facing the fort, to cover the retreat of Captain McDonald's company, who marched with drums beating toward the enemy, in order to draw a party out of the fort; as Major Grant believed that there were not two hundred men including Indians in the garrison.
		"Upon their arrival at Fort Duquesne, they entered upon an Indian race path, upon each side of which a number of stakes, with the bark peeled off, were stuck into the earth, and upon each stake was fixed the head and kilt of a Highlander who had been killed or taken prisoner, at Grant's defeat.
	www.memberbbb.com /forbesroad.html (1942 words)

	SparkNotes: The French and Indian War (1754-1763): Important People and Places
		He was killed in 1755 at the first battle for Fort Duquesne.
		During the war he became a war hero as well, leading the British to victory at the Battle of Lake George in 1755.
		Fort George/Fort Duquesne/Fort Pitt - This centrally located fort in what is now Pittsburgh, PA changed hands many times during the war.
	www.sparknotes.com /history/american/frenchindian/terms.html (583 words)

	SparkNotes: The French and Indian War (1754-1763): The Failure of General Braddock
		The attack on Fort Niagara was deferred until the next year, and the troops reinforcing Oswego were left with the prospect of facing an invigorated and more-experienced French army.
		The type of battle most suited to this natural landscape was not Braddock's style, but rather sniping gunfire from the cover of trees, ambushes, surprise attacks, and guerrilla warfare.
		One of the primary reasons the French were able to hold an advantage in the war for four years despite being outnumbered and underfunded, was their tactical understanding of the landscape, and their ability and willingness to act on that tactical understanding.
	www.sparknotes.com /history/american/frenchindian/section2.rhtml (824 words)

	Fort Duquesne
		Weakly defended Fort Duquesne was the target of this venture, but an early debate raged over the route to be taken to the Forks.
		The capture of Fort Duquesne coincided with the fall of Fort Frontenac and the fortress at Louisbourg.
		Fort Pitt would be known as Fort Dunmore for a brief time in the early 1770s to honor the royal governor of New York and Virginia, but would revert to its earlier name during the War for Independence.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1195.html (966 words)

	Re-creating past - PittsburghLIVE.com
		Fort Ligonier was built in September 1758 as part of a British effort to seize Fort Duquesne, the French citadel at the strategically important point at the start of the Ohio River.
		Last week, Mooney and workers from his small company were at Fort Ligonier in Westmoreland County working on a re-creation of a flsmith's log hut built in the late 1740s or early 1750s that preceded construction of the fort.
		Mooney expects all the construction at Fort Ligonier to be completed by October 2008 -- the 250th anniversary of the battle at the fort.
	pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/trib/westmoreland/s_413916.html (641 words)

	Fort Necessity National Battlefield (U.S. National Park Service)
		The battle at Fort Necessity in the summer of 1754 was the opening action of the French and Indian War.
		There are many opportunities for internships and to volunteer at Fort Necessity.
		The action at Fort Necessity was the first major event in the military career of George Washington.
	www.nps.gov /fone (275 words)

	Braddock's defeat Battle of Monongahela river
		The origins for the march to the Monogahela lie in the establishment by the French of Fort Duquesne at the Ohio Forks (now Pittsburgh) and the small scale fighting during 1753 and 1754 culminating in George Washington’s capitulation at Fort Necessity on 3rd July 1754.
		Robert Dinwiddie, the deputy governor of Virginia agitated for a force from England to displace the French on the Ohio.
		After the battle many of the wounded were found to have wounds from British musket balls rather than the smaller calibre French issue.
	www.britishbattles.com /braddock.htm (3471 words)

	The American Revolution - The Making of America and Her Independence
		Fort Duquesne was part of French defenses during the French and Indian War that stretched from Quebec City on the St. Lawrence River to New Orleans on the Mississippi River.
		The British were repelled from Fort Duquesne in 1755, but they attacked again in 1758.
		The Brits gained the fort, renamed it for British prime minister William Pitt, and broke the French chain of defense almost exactly in half.
	www.americanrevolution.com /ppl_fort_duquesne_2.html (107 words)

	Army of re-enactors for George Washington movie travels on its stomach
		The engagement they are about to film is the Battle of Grant's Hill, on eof the bloodiest and most costly for British forces in the French and Indian War.
		Edward Braddock at the Battle of Monongahela in 1755.
		During the filming of the battle with Grant, Matzen asked the American Indians to run through the woods in a traditional military line.
	www.post-gazette.com /localnews/20030518georgereg4p4.asp (1277 words)

	History of Fort Edwards Site on Cacapon River
		In what has come to be called either the "Battle of Great Cacapon River" or "Mercer's Massacre", Capt. John Fenton Mercer, Ensign Thomas Carter and fifteen soldiers of a larger group were ambushed and killed when they left the safety of the fort to search for a band of Indians roaming in the area.
		In May of 1756 after Mercer's Massacre, the House of Burgesses of the Colony of Virginia, at the urging of Col. Washington, ordered a chain of forts to be built from Henry Enoch's at the Forks of Capon south to Halifax County.
		In May, 1754 Col. Joshua Fry died at the Fort at Wills Creek; it was left to the twenty-two year old Washington to lead the Colonial forces to the Forks of the Ohio to sieze the land for England.
	www.fortedwards.org /history.htm (1297 words)

	Edward Braddock
		British general who lost an intense battle at Fort Duquesne.
		Out of the 1,400 British soliders who were in involved in the battle, 900 of them died.
		Washington organized the retreat to Fort Necessity, where the British awaited the inevitable French follow-up.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /wwww/us/edwardbraddockdef.htm (115 words)

	Battle of Fort Necessity
		The burgesses had shown themselves indifferent to the alleged dangers from the French; and the chief magistrate and his advisers determined not to wait for the assembling of the legislature.
		Major Washington was commissioned a lieutenant-colonel, and placed in chief command of the troops to be raised; and the journal of his mission to the French commander was published to arouse the people to action.
		With his little army swelled to about four hundred men, he moved toward Fort Duquesne, when news came that M. de Villiers, brother of Jumonville, had marched with some Frenchmen and more than a thousand Indians to avenge the death of his kinsman.
	publicbookshelf.com /public_html/Our_Country_Vol_1/battlefor_bae.html (1450 words)

	History of the Lemmon Family
		They remained there for a number of years agitating the question in favor of America liberty and when wars came they were in the front lines and the heat of battle.
		They were in the Battle of Fort Duquesne on July 9th, 1755, on the occasion of defeat and mortal wounding of General Braddock.
		Captain James Lemmon was killed in the battle of Brandywine.
	www.rawlins.org /histories/html/lemmon_family_history.html (575 words)

	The American Revolution
		In American, we call it the “French and Indian War” because that is who we fought against.
		Battle of Fort Duquesne (1755) – 1,400 British troops led by General Edward Braddock (with assistance from George Washington) are defeated by the French in what is today western
		Battle of Louisbourg (1758) British forces sent to America by Prime Minister William Pitt, and led by Gen. Jeffrey Amherst and Gen. James Wolfe, capture the port of Louisbourg in Canada; first major victory for the British in the French and Indian War.
	users.tellurian.net /vanorden/n.FIWar.03.htm (320 words)

	Battle of Fort Duquesne
		The army for the recovery of Fort Duquesne assembled at Alexandria.
		At the close of May, five hundred pioneers were sent forward to clear the pathway and collect stores at Fort Necessity; but the main army was not ready to move until the 10th of June.
		The protection of Washington from harm during that battle was wonderful.
	publicbookshelf.com /public_html/Our_Country_Vol_1/battlefor_bah.html (1139 words)

	Battle of Fort Duquesne
		The army for the recovery of Fort Duquesne assembled at Alexandria.
		At the close of May, five hundred pioneers were sent forward to clear the pathway and collect stores at Fort Necessity; but the main army was not ready to move until the 10th of June.
		The protection of Washington from harm during that battle was wonderful.
	www.publicbookshelf.com /public_html/Our_Country_Vol_1/battlefor_bah.html (1139 words)

	The Point: Organizations: Indian Trails to Fort Duquesne
		They were historical students out on an expedition to trace the line of the Indian trails, the site of the old forts and the course of the road made by General Forbes in 1758, when his army was advancing towards Fort Duquesne.
		The clear, tree-bounded Loyalhanna creek recalls the first settlers in the place, who here had their village and named the stream the Loyalhanna, which, in the Delaware means "middle stream," as the waters of the creek are midway between those of the Juniata (at Bedford) and those of the Ohio, at Pittsburg.
		The little village of log houses, a court house, jail and fort was the first seat of justice of the Anglo-Saxon race west of the Allegheny Mountains.
	www.clpgh.org /exhibit/neighborhoods/point/point_n715.html (2151 words)

	Braddock's March
		There were scores of campfollowers and laborers that traveled with Braddock's army in 1755, women, children, wagon drivers, wood cutters, and sutlers to name a few.
		These people were an invaluable part of the traveling army, and played an important role at the battle near Fort Duquesne.
		Women shared the same fate as the soldiers when the British forces were ambushed by a party of French and Indians, and were even among the list of captured and wounded.
	44thregiment.itgo.com /march.html (169 words)

	Townhall.com :: Washington's character... and America's by Paul Jacob Feb 23, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In one battle at Fort Duquesne, he had two horses shot out from under him and still climbed aboard a third and continued the battle.
		Years later, again at Fort Duquesne, a battle erupted mistakenly between two contingents of the Virginia Regiment.
		In fact, Washington was never viewed as a military genius in battle.
	townhall.com /print/print_story.php?sid=14613&loc=/.../02/23/14613.html (917 words)

	National Historic Monuments - Fort Necessity, General Braddock's Grave, Fort Duquesne, Jomonville Glen, George ...
		The confrontation at Fort Necessity in the summer of 1754 was the opening battle of the war fought by England and France for control of the North American continent.
		The action at Fort Necessity was also the first major event in the military career of George Washington, and it marked the only time he ever surrendered to an enemy.
		Braddock was mortally wounded in an engagement with the French and Indians near Fort Duquesne, now Pittsburgh.
	www.nationalroadpa.org /national_monuments.html (329 words)

	RCDS-US History 5-14 Hangman
		An important American victory in 1777, the Battle of Saratoga (NY) finished with General Burgoyne and British soldiers’ surrender.
		A major general for Great Britain, Cornwallis took part in many of the major battles of the war including the Battle of Long Island (NY), battles in Trenton and Princeton (NJ), and the British occupation in Philadelphia (PA)...
		Texas fights Santa Anna and his Mexican troops and win their freedom at their battle at San Jacinto, they became a shaky republic and their admission into the Union was declined by Jackson who did not want to risk a war with Mexico
	www.studystack.com /hangman-14991 (4218 words)

	Save Fort Pitt: Fort Pitt's Scottish American Heritage
		In one corner, under a shady chestnut tree, a seated visitor was in deep, animated conversation with a group of older pensioners, all speaking in their native tongue, "the Erse" or Gaelic language.
		An "auld" acquaintance enlisted at the outset was kinsman "Jemmy" Stewart of Urrard who had been wounded as a young company commander at the battle of Ticonderoga in 1758 and had survived the jungled crags of Martinique in 1762.
		This book will hopefully not only reveal the physical conditions of their fighting but their behavior and emotions generated by battle, their will and ability to fight, and most of all their resilient and proud character.
	www.savefortpitt.org /index.php/32 (7899 words)

	Legendary frontiersman here all bone and sinew - The Washington Times: Non-Fiction Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Edward Braddock's British army during its disastrous defeat at the battle for Fort Duquesne at the start of the French and Indian War.
		Instead, at the right opportunity, Boone escaped for a long run for his life,arriving exhaustedin Boonesborough to warn its citizens and prepare for the fort's ultimately successful defense in the summer of 1778.
		Indian war (the disastrous Battle of Blue Licks in 1782 was a major setback to settlement) would not end until General "Mad Anthony" Wayne's victory over the Shawnees and their allies at the Battle of Fallen Timbers near present-day Toledo, Ohio in 1794.
	www.washtimes.com /books/20031220-101742-7595r.htm (1117 words)

	The Olive Tree Genealogy: French-Indian Wars - Battle of Fort Duquesne
		Thanks goes to Deborah for this series of articles, which she generously donated to The Canadian Military Heritage Project and which is used here with consent.
		Abridged text: The prodigious extent of country which they had to traverse, through woods without roads, and over mountains and morasses almost impassable, rendered this expedition no less difficult than the other two, although the point of attack was less formidable, and the number of the enemy inferior.
		Rather than endure a siege and capture, the French destroyed their post; but before retreating from the Fort, many of the prisoners were ruthlessly slaughtered: "On the night of November 24th the men heard a tremendous explosion.
	olivetreegenealogy.com /mil/usa/frind/batt_duquesne.shtml (1363 words)

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