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A Very Short History of Pittsburgh For Pittsburgh, geography and geology have been destiny. August 25, 2008 Geography comes first. Close upon the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, one gets a sense of westward flowing waters, but a map of Western Pennsylvania shows the Allegheny flowing south and the Monongahela north, almost at right angles to the Ohio. A fourth river, the Potomac, comes into play by bringing the coast of Virginia close to...

4:20 At the intersection of Franklin and South Trenton avenues in Regent Square, an unassuming blue marker commemorates the spot where President George Washington once camped. Good Question! asker Taylor Stessney noticed the sign, which dates the campsite to November 24, 1758. “I was just curious, considering how it looks now with all these buildings and everything, what did this area look like at that time?” That marker commemorates Forbes Road, a historic military route across Pennsylvani...

braddock entered the american scene very confident thinking that his regulars would carry the day. and not only he thought take ft. duquesne but march onward to niagara and other points and defeat the french. this was braddocks conception. no doubt he was overconfident. he landed -- where did his troops first come? they came to virginia and then moved into maryland and then northwestward toward ft. duquesne. accompanying him were virginia militia men. and george washington was at the h...

assisting general braddock. so here we have colonials, british colonials from virginia working with the british commander general braddock. braddock didnt find everything easy. he found that the colonists werent necessarily simply cooperative with the british war it took benjamin franklins intervention to help procure wagons and horses for the british army. and franklin acted as an agent for general brad a advertised in pennsylvanias rural counties, and basically his message to the far...

grow he did. but the ingredients of growth were present from his earliest years. to be sure, young washington was a socially awkward aspirant to the colonial gentry, brave to the point of rashness, touchy where his honor was concerned, unsophisticated in matters of love. but even then he carried with him the seeds of sacrificial leadership. pregnant with character, this is washington at 22. the first of those three astonishing life-like figures. of washington, which anchored the exhibi...

expedite the march i shall be supported in it, which at present i dont apprehend will, unhes some busy body intermedals. do you think the governor got the message? a month later promoted to a lieutenant colonel it was in a different tone of voice that he addressed his excellency. the south carolina company whose royal commission entitled its members to higher rank and pay compared to washingtons hastily recruited irregulars. on learning that his earnings would be substantially less tha...

confident. thinking his regulars would carry the day, and not only he thought take fort dusquene and thought march on ward to niagra and other points. no doubt he was overconfident. >> he landed, where did his troops first come. they came to virginia and then moved into maryland, and then northwest ward for fort dusquene. accompanying him were virginia militia men. george washington was at the head of the virginia militia assisting general braddock. we have british colonials working wi...

shawnees, delawares, potawatomies, miamis, many, many others, and well talk about some of those today. so the name french and indian war can be used to indicate the seven years war north america, but its very important to remember that it doesnt really mean that all the natives by any means are simply on the french side or that they stay on one side throughout the war. again, native peoples enter this conflict for their own reasons, for their own interests. and well see that their inte...

he landed, where did his troops first come in they came to virginia and then moved into maryland and then northwestward toward fort duquesne. accompanying him were virginia militia men. and george washington was at the head of those virginia militia assisting general braddock. so here we have colonials, british colonials from virginia working with the british commander general braddock. braddock didnt find everything easy. he found that the colonists werent necessarily simply cooperati...

washington thought and what type of man he was, i became fascinated about all the stories that surrounded him, all the legends. at the washington paper we get so many queries from the people and the general public. many of them are interesting and serious queries about what washington did or who he was but we get the occasional whacky email or whacky phone call or piece of correspondence that asks about whether -- for example, somebody asked me did washington really die on an engineeri...