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The French and Indian War - The Forks
The French and Indian War began at the forks of the Ohio in 1754, and in 1758 it came home to where it started. This is the story of how the British finally took the forks — not in one great battle, but through a dying Scottish general who built a road instead of charging down one, and a lone Moravian missionary who walked into the heart of the enemy’s country to make a peace. John Forbes, carried on a litter and wasting away, ground his army west across Pennsylvania the slow, stubborn way Braddock should have. Christian Frederick Post carried a wampum belt into the Ohio towns and asked the…
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