 | George Washington - 1927 - 442 pages
...22d."— Diary. NOVEMBER 23, Friday. Forks of the Ohio River, Pennsylvania. This date is presumptive "As I got down before the Canoe I spent some time...which I think extremely well situated for a Fort." — Diary. NOVEMBER 25, Sunday. Logs Town, Pennsylvania. "Shingiss attended us to the Loggs-Town, where... | |
 | Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - 1902 - 884 pages
...Monongahela with our baggage, to meet us at the forks of Ohio, about ten miles; there to cross the Aleghany. "As I got down before the canoe, I spent some time...the land in the fork, which I think extremely well suited for a fort, as it has the absolute command of both rivers. The land at the point is twenty,... | |
 | George Washington - 1931 - 672 pages
...Inhabitants the Day following. The excessive Rains and vast Quantity of Snow. ***** November 22, 1753. As I got down before the Canoe, I spent some time in viewing the Rivers, and the Land in the Fork;50 which I think extremely well situated for a Fort, as it has the absolute Command of both Rivers.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations - 1967 - 1608 pages
...Washington — surveyed the Point a few hundred yards from here, and pronounced it in these words as being "extremely well situated for a Fort, as it has the absolute command of both Rivers." The decades that followed proved his point Pittsburgh became the great provisioner, the Gateway to the... | |
 | Clinton Alfred Weslager - 1972 - 572 pages
...junction of the rivers, he quickly came to the same conclusion and noted in his journal that the land was "extremely well situated for a Fort, as it has the absolute Command of both Rivers." 20 Neither the English warning delivered by Washington nor the three Indian protests deterred the French.... | |
 | Lynn Boyd Hinds - 2010 - 210 pages
...River. It was the spot that a young George Washington had noted in his Journal on November 23, 1753, was "extremely well situated for a Fort, as it has the absolute Command of both Rivers." 13 Along with the city itself, television was entering the modern age, looking to a promising future... | |
 | Lynn Boyd Hinds - 2004 - 205 pages
...River. It was the spot that a young George Washington had noted in his Journal on November 23. 1753, was "extremely well situated for a Fort, as it has the absolute Command of both Rivers."13 Along with the city itself, television was entering the modern age, looking to a promising... | |
 | 400 pages
...this trip that he wrote to Governor Dinwiddie that the site at the present-day Point at Pittsburgh was "extremely well situated for a fort, as it has the absolute Command of both rivers." Washington was to let the French know that the king of England (and the Virginia speculators) claimed... | |
 | Washington Irving - 2005 - 409 pages
...before the canoe," writes he in his journal, "I spent some time in viewing the rivers, and the land at the Fork, which I think extremely well situated for...as it has the absolute command of both rivers. The laud at the point is twenty or twenty-five feet above the common surface of the water, and a considerable... | |
 | Alfred Proctor James, Charles Morse Stotz - 2005 - 276 pages
...Boeuf, George Washington examined and took exception to this site proposed by the Ohio Company. He first "spent some Time in viewing the Rivers, and the Land in the Forks; which I think extremely well situated for a Fort, as it has the absolute Command of both Rivers.... | |
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As I got down before the canoe, I spent some time in viewing the rivers and the land in the fork, which I think extremely well situated for a Fort, as it has the absolute command of both rivers. 
