Johnstown High School - Spectator Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

 - Class of 1932

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army was too strong for them; they abandoned and burned Fort Duquesne and retreated down the Ohio. General Forbes took possession of the smoldering ruins, had the fort made defensible, and renamed it Fort Pitt in honor of the Prime Minister of England. The downfall of Fort Duquesne ended the border troubles, as Washington had pre- dicted it would. The restoration of order on the border ended the war for Virginia; hence the end of 1758 was the end of George Washington’s military service in the French and Indian War. Washington’s next expedition into the west was a peaceful one, when, twelve years later, he went out in interest of the land promised to the soldiers who had enlisted for the Fort Necessity expedition. The total amount to be given to the soldiers was 200,000 acres; of this Washington was entitled to a tract of 15,000 acres. Impatient over the delay in securing the land for the soldiers, Washington volunteered to take the matter in hand and perfect the grants for his old friends. In August, 1770, he was authorized by a conference of the officers of the troops to act as their representative to secure the lands. In October, he started for the Kanawha River. In November, after a journey which was easy in comparison with his earlier ones, he marked out at the mouth of the Great Kanawha River some corners of the Soldiers’ Land. By November, 1772, the entire 200,000 acres had been obtained, and most of the certificates of title de- posited. Of this land Washington eventually secured, by purchase from other sol- diers, 32,373 acres. It was partly in interest of these lands, but more particularly to plan for the development of this great West that he made his last trip into wes- tern Pennsylvania in 1784. [12]

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and Indians. The effect of the defeat was disastrous. Colonel Dunbar, who com- manded the rear of Braddock’s Army that had not taken part in the battle, refused to advance or to stand his ground, and withdrew to Philadelphia, leaving the entire border at the mercy of the French and Indians. FORT NECESSITY, JULY 4, 1754 From a painting by David Shriver Stewart (From A Toung Colonel from Virginia, used by permission of the Fort Necessity Memorul Association] When William Pitt became Prime Minister of England, he sent substantial military and naval forces to America. France did not re-enforce her armies, so that the French forces in America were left to their fate. Washington had always urged that another expedition be sent against Fort Duquesne; and at last in 1758, an expedition was organized under Brigadier Gen- eral Forbes, with Washington at the head of the Virginia troops. A notable contrast to General Braddock’s disregard of George Washington’s advice was the respect shown by General Forbes, who asked the young officer to make for him a plan of march. The value of this plan was so apparent that it was adopted and followed. General Forbes’s expedition advanced slowly. The making of a new road through the wilderness was difficult, and the approach to Fort Duquesne was de- layed until in danger of being halted by winter weather. It is true that the French defeated an advance guard of the British under Grant, but General Forbes’s whole [11]



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Ill 'PEC1AI0 II. Washington and Western Expansion Kenneth Klenk WASHINGTON in War has always been better known than Washington in Peace; although H. B. Adams says of him—“It would seem as though all lines of our public policy lead back to Washington as all roads lead to Rome.” After the Revolutionary War, no one knew better than he the lamentable condition of the country. His remedy for this condition was expansion, and his plans for expansion were for the sake of his country, and not for his own gain. In peace times he was not the distinguished gentleman taking life easy at Mount Vernon, as supposed, but an explorer and a pioneer. Washington said that a nation to live must grow, and he looked to the land west of the Alleghenies for hope and light. When men argued that thirteen weak states could not hope to hold the west, when England and France had failed, Wash- ington replied that the bond would be a commercial bond, one stronger than any military rule a country could devise. As early as 1763, he made attempts to develop the West. In that year, he was active in forming the Mississippi Company. This company was broken up when the King of England refused it a tract of land because of a proclamation prohibiting western settlements. This failure did not discourage Washington; he knew that the West would soon be luring more and more settlers. So strong was his faith in its development that he had William Crawford select good tracts of land for him near what is now Pittsburgh. At the end of the Revolutionary War, Washington resigned his command and returned to Mount Vernon where he was much needed. During the war his estates had suffered from want of a guiding hand; squatters were settling on his western lands, while thieving land agents were boldly selling them abroad. In the autumn of 1784, Washington visited these western lands partly to protect his own interests, but more particularly to study the western waterways; for he realized the importance of waterways in the opening and developing of the country. His main object in the study of waterways was to find an all-Virginia water route to the Mississippi and the Great Lakes. On September 1, 1784, he and his party started up the Potomac from Mount Vernon, and a few days later came to the home of a Mr. Stroud, where they stayed while Washington studied the rivers in the vicinity. While he was at Stroud’s, he found that the Mason-Dixon, line separated Virginia from the headwaters of the Cheat and Youghiogheny Rivers, thus making an all-Virginia water route to the west impossible. Several days later he came to the old Gist homestead, near what is now Great Meadows, the scene of his first military campaign into Pennsylvania. On his way to Gist’s he had talked with many traders about the western waterways. From these traders, too, he had learned that an all-Virginia water route was impossible, [13]

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