Identifier: ourgreatercountr00nort (find matches)
Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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been built to the memoryof the Great Commoner. Two regiments, composed of Pennsyl-vanians, Virginians and Marylanders, underMercer, were left to garrison Fort Pitt, whichwas restored to its former strength. GeneralForbes then returned east of the mountains,and Washington resigned his commissionand retired to private life. The object of thecampaign was accomplished, and he couldnow enjoy the rest to which five years ofconstant service had entitled him. The capture of Fort Duquesne was themost important event of the war. It put anend to the French occupation of the valleyof the Ohio and settled the claim of GreatBritain to that valuable region. The Indians,having no longer the support and encour-agement which they had derived from theFrench at this post, ceased their hostileefforts, and during the remainder of the v^arthe frontiers of Virginia and Pennsylvaniawere at peace. The capture of the fort wasfollowed by a large emigration west of themountains, which, beginning the next spring,
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WASHINGTON PLANTING THE FLAG ON FORT DUQUESNE. 3i6 THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR. soon placed a large and energetic populationof Englishmen and their families in the val-ley of the Ohio. The Indians, disheartenedby the defeat of the French, began to formtreaties of peace or neutrality with the Eng- ^lish. Washingtons Valor. Washingtons services in this campaignwere acknowledged with pride throughoutthe colonies, but the British governmenttook no notice of them. Not even Pitt,with all his appreciation of America, thoughtit worth while to offer him any promotion orreward, as had been done in the case ofother meritorious provincial commandersSoon after his withdrawal from the army hetook his seat in the house of burgesses, towhich he had been elected. That bodyordered its .speaker to publicly thank ColonelWashington in the name of the house and ofthe people of Virginia for his services to hiscountry. The speaker discharged this dutywith ease and dignity, but when Washingtonattempted to reply

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