ILLUSTRATIONS
| I. | Modern Road on Laurel Hill, (Follows Track of Washington’s Road) | [Frontispiece] |
| II. | Washington’s Road | [93] |
| III. | A Map of the Country between Wills Creek and Lake Erie (showing designs of the French for erecting forts southward of the lakes; from the original in the British Museum) | [109] |
| IV. | Ledge from which Washington Opened Fire upon Jumonville’s Party | [145] |
| V. | Site of Fort Necessity | [157] |
| VI. | Two Plans of Fort Necessity (A, Plan of Lewis’s survey; B, Sparks’s plan) | [175] |
| VII. | Diagrams of Fort Necessity | [179] |
PREFACE
The following pages are largely devoted to Washington and his times as seen from the standpoint of the road he opened across the Alleghanies in 1754. Portions of this volume have appeared in the Interior, the Ohio State Archæological and Historical Quarterly, and in a monograph, Colonel Washington, issued by Western Reserve University. The author’s debt to Mr. Robert McCracken, Mr. Louis Fazenbaker, and Mr. James Hadden, all of Pennsylvania, is gratefully acknowledged.
A. B. H.
Marietta, Ohio, November 17, 1902.