Ohio archæological and historical publications (1887)
Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society · Columbus : Published for the Society by F.J. Heer · leaf 425
order to sever the line of French forts from Quebec to Louis-iana, and break the backbone of New France. This important expedition landed at the port of Alexandria,in Virginia, February 20, 1755. With the same dense ignoranceof the continent, which existed in the day when letters wereaddressed to… … < 2 g ,5 et ;* I^S .« 2 ^^ <. s s — /-. Ho £ <- S^ . :^- V OS » >^>w- ^1 = -J / The Old National Road. 413 as to how this army was to march through the dense wildernessto the fort it was to capture. The port of debarkation, whichsettled, necessarily, the matter of route, was decided…
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