 | Sterling North - 2006 - 188 pages
...to become the Ohio River. With his keen engineering eye he realized that here at the Fork was land "extremely well situated for a Fort, as it has the absolute Command of both Rivers." The notes in his journal concerning the strategic value of the present site of Pittsburgh give us one of... | |
 | Stuart P. Boehmig - 2007 - 132 pages
...river called La Belle Riviere (the Beautiful River). Washington described the land at the Forks as "extremely well situated for a Fort; as it has the...absolute Command of both rivers. The Land at the Point is 20 or 25 Feet above the Common Surface of the Water; and a considerable Bottom of flat land, well timbered... | |
 | 1940 - 772 pages
...English. Washington, then 21 and on his first commission, stated in his Journals: 'I spent some time viewing the rivers, and the land in the fork, which...as it has the absolute command of both rivers.' The following February Captain William Trent and 70 men, under orders from Dinwiddie, began to erect a... | |
 | 1854 - 800 pages
...have the first account of the site of the present city, where at that time no human being resided. " As I got down before the canoe, I spent some time in viewing the river and the land in the fork, which I think extremely well suited for a fort, as it has the absolute... | |
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