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cd their cannon and demanded its sur
render. Ensign Ward promptly cons
piled with the demand and was per-
mitted TO withdraw with all his men,
The unfinished English fort was soon
demolished. and one near by, but closer
to the Allegheny river than Fort PIT,
was erected by the French and named
Fort Duquesne.
OF the subsequent movements be-
tween the French and British for pos
session of the Forks of the Ohio, can
not write in detail, 1t must suffice me
to say, in brief that they involved tho
forward movement of the Virginia
troops under Washington shortly after
the abandonment Tor Fort Pitt by En-
sign Ward, and his obtaining tenn
porary advantage over the French In
the defeat of their forces under Coulon
de JumonVille (killed In the engage
meuD OF his own retreat before Il SUI
prior force OF French and Indians to
Great Meadows. where he cspitulated
to Coulon de Vllliers; of the Braddock
expedition of 1855. rendered disastrous
by the arrogance and stupidity of the
British general, who insisted on fight
ing Indians and French frontiersinen
exactly In the same form as he would
have fought Prussian armies in Europe;
the awful battle in which he was so
overwhelmingly defeated that the en-
sacre of the English troops. was fought
some eight miles east of the Forks of
the Ohio. With the defeat of Braddock
the efforts to take Fort Duquesne were
at and end for some three years.
BRITISH EXPEDITION.
At tho close of that interval. however.
another British expedition was formed
for the capture of Fort Duquesne, I'M
der Orig. Gen. Forbes and Col, Bou-
quet. a young Swiss officer In the SER
Vice of the British. This expedition,
though sustaining some slight reverses,
| drove the French to such extremities
!, that they themselves blew up Fort
Duquesne and retired from the Forks
| of the Ohio.
| on the arrival of Gen. Forbes at that
point che hastily built stockade
around the soldiers huts and traders
cabins which. in honor OF England's
great prime minister and Americas
friend, he named Pittsburgh" Sixty
days later came the royal mandate,
through this same prime minister, to
the colonial authorities and the COM
mander-in-chief OF his maJesty's forces
in North America ITO lose no time In
concerning the properest and speediest
means for completely restoring. II pos
sible, the ruined Fort Duquesne to a
defensible and respectable state, or for
erecting another in the place OF II of
sufficient strength and every way ade-
quate to the great Importance OF the
several objects OF maintaining his ma
jestys subjects in the undisputed pos
session OF the Ohio
CAGES APPEARANCE.
The year following. 1864, when the In
dams who had meanwhile rendezvoused
along the MuskingGm, above what is
now known as Marietta, Ohio. again
prepared 10 ravage the British frontier,
Gen Gage--he of the Boston schoolboy
eplsode.-then commander-in-chief of
his majestys forces in the American
colonies, planned two expeditions
against them; one led by Gen Brad
street, ordered to advance by way of
the Great Lakes; the other. led by Col.
Bouquet, TO start from Fort Pitt. Both
expeditions were successful Col. Bou-
quet pursued the savages to their new
homes on the Muskinghan, refusing TO
listen TO parleys. until the spirit of the
native tribes was subdued and they
were ready to accept such terms
as he chose to dictate. one
of these terms was, that NIL
of the whites held captive by tho
Indians should be brought in ana
surrendered. This was acceeded to.
and some 900 captives were brought
10 his encampment.
PATHETIC INCIDENT.
II was a pathetic scene which at
tended this event Some ~ tho cap
tiyes had boon held for years by the
Indians. some OF them as long as
nine years. Those who had been car
turcd in their childhood had forgot