Bisbee daily review., 1913-04-13

arms, they left upon the ground.
abandoned. Far into the night they
ran madly on, in frantic search for the
camp Of the rear division, crying, as
they ran. for help; they even passed
the camp, in their uncomfortable ter
ror of pursuit, and went desperately
on toward the settlements.
Washington and the few officers and
provincials who scoTned the terror
found the utmost difficulty in bringing
OF their stricken general. where he
lay wishing to die. Upon the fourth
day after the battle he died, loathing
the sight OF = =edcoat. they said, and
murmuring praises OF the blues, the
once despised Virginians. They buried
his body in the road, that the army
wagons might pass over the place and
obliterate every trace of a grave their
savage enemies might rejoice to find
and desecrate.
a Craven Commander.
He had lived to reach Dunbar's
camp. but not to see the end Of the
shameful rout The terror mastered
the rear guard, too. They destroyed
their artillery. burned their wagons
and stores, emptied their powder into
the streams, and themselves broke in
to a disordered feverish retreat which
was a mere flight. their cTavan com
mander shamefully acQuiescing. He
would not even hold or rally them at
Fort Cumberland, but went on, as II
ell he Fr
Philadelphia, leaving the fort, and
all the frontier with It, TO be de.
Tended by invalids and a few Viz.
ginians"
4 acknowledge cried DinwiddIe, Il
was not brought up to arms; but !
think common sense would have pre-
vailed not to leave the frontier expos.
{ ed after having opened a road over
the mountains TO the Ohio, by which
the enemy can the more easily invade
US The whole conduct OF Colonel
: Dunbar seems to be monstrous." And
so, indeed It was.
But the colonies at large had little
/ time to think Of it. Governor Shirley
had gone against Niagara only to find
4 the French ready for him at every
+ point, now that they had read Brad
( docks papers. taken at Duqussne, and
10 come back again without doing any
I thing. Beausejour had been taken IN
I acadia, but it lay apart from the main
4 field of struggle johnson beat the
French of at Lake George when they
attacked him, and took Dieskau, their
B commander; but he contented himself
I with that, and left Crown Point IN
touched. There were other frontiers
I besides those OF Virginia and Pennsyi.
. yania 10 be looked to and guarded
Three Years Of French Success
I For three long years did the for
I tunes OF the English settlements go
( steadily from danger to desperation,
/ as the French and their savage allies
] advanced from victory to victory In
Z 1856 Oswego was taken; in 1867, Fort
I William Henry. Commander succeed
ed commander among the English,
only to add blunder to bluncer failure
to failure
And all the while ii fell 10 Washing
ton, Yirginia's chief stay in her des-
: Defste trouble, TO stand steadfastly to
the hopeless work OF keeping three
hundred and fifty miles Of frontier
with few hundred men against prowl
ing bands OF sayages. masters OF the
craft Of swift and secret attack. de1-
ferrous al skuiking." In country
mountainous and full OF swamps and
hollow ways covered with woods"
For twenty years now settlers had
been coming steadily into this wilder
ness that lay up and down upon the
nearer slopes of the great mouDtaias
Germans. sootsirish. a hard breed
Their settlements lay scattered far
and near among the foothills and val
lsys. Their. men Ters valiant and