CONTENTS

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Preface[11]
I.Washington and the West[15]
II.The Hunting-Ground of the Iroquois[40]
III.The Arms of the King of France[63]
IV.The Virginian Governor’s Envoy[85]
V.The Virginia Regiment[120]
VI.The Chain of Federal Union[189]


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]