[1120] The road over the mountains followed by Washington is identified in Lowdermilk’s Cumberland, p. 51.
[1121] Sargent says the ruins of the fort which the French completed in 1755 at Venango were still (1855) to be seen at Franklin, Penna.; it was 400 feet square, with embankments then eight feet high. Sargent’s Braddock’s Exped., p. 41; Day, Hist. Coll. Penna., 312, 642. There is a notice of the original engineer’s draft of the fort in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., ix. 248-249. Cf. S. J. M. Eaton’s Centennial Discourse in Venango County, 1876; and Egle’s Pennsylvania, pp. 694, 1122, where there is (p. 1123) a plan of the fort.
[1122] This summons is in Mass. Hist. Coll., vi. 141. Cf. N. Y. Col. Docs., vi. 840.
[1123] The terms of the capitulation, as rendered by Villiers, had a reference to the “assassinat” of Jumonville, which a Dutchman, Van Braam, who acted as interpreter, concealed from Washington by translating the words “death of Jumonville.” This unintended acknowledgment of crime was subsequently used by the French in aspersing the character of Washington. See Critical Essay, post.
[1124] In December, 1754, Croghan reported to Gov. Morris that the Ohio Indians were all ready to aid the English if they would only make a movement. Penna. Archives, ii. 209.
[1125] See chapter ii.
[1126] See post.
[1127] Cf. Le Château de Vaudreuil, by A. C. de Lery Macdonald in Rev. Canadienne, new ser., iv. pp. 1, 69, 165; Daniel’s Nos Gloires, 73.
[1128] A view of the house in Alexandria used as headquarters by Braddock is in Appleton’s Journal, x. p. 785.
[1129] See chapter vii.