FORT DUQUESNE AND FORT PITT EARLY NAMES OF PITTSBURGHSTREETS F OU R TH E D I TI ON P U BLI S HE D BY I D AU GHTER S OF T HE AME R I CAN R E!OLU TI ON . v ‘ 7 f-v-f A G H Y TY P Y A I A LLE E N C OU N , E NNS L! N R E E D W I T T I N G , P R E S S Tbis little skelen D uquesn e a n d F ort P ill is ’ com il d from exlra els lei /!z n m a in l from P a rkma n s p e e y Hislories T/ze Old n Tim é N vill B . Cra i F ort ; e e , y e e g, P ill B M s m l n on P ion i o W . D a i l H sl é r . r r r , y g ; ee y , y Hild el e c S . P . r /z , i . P itts én rg/z S eplember 1 898 . C HR O N O L O G Y . —T h F r n ch b e b a chain r s t o eu 17 5 3 . e e gin to uil d of fo t a forc e th eir b ound ri e s . — L B 1 7 53 . Was s s F r e e . D e c e mb e r 1 , 1 hington vi it o t o uf ’ — a Wa wr s I s a d J a ar 17 54 . Wa s ds nu y , hington l n on in ight l n — e e ds a a r b e in th e All e gh e ny riv er. 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S e e a dda er p il , M y ch nl y , g n ught of ’ ’ J a H a s s B ed b G en . e s O ar re e . e s m , p nt Col ouqu t R ou t to the D aughters of th e Am erican Re volution of A e e P e s a a ll gh ny County , nn ylv ni . F O RT D U Q U E SN E Conflicting Cl aim s of F ranc e a n d E ngl and in N A r a o rt h m e ic . N maps of British America in the earlier part O th of e eighteenth century , one sees the east ern coast , from Maine to Georgia , gashed with ten difieren t or twelve colored patches , very in size and fin shap e , and de ed more or less distinctly by divid ing lines , which in some cases are prolonged west n or ward u til they reach the Mississippi , even cross it and stretch indefin itely towards the Pacific . s These patche are the British Provinces , and the western prolongation of their boun dary represents their several claims to vast interior tracts founded on ancient grants , but not made good by occupation f ii 5“ or vindicated by an exertion o power . Each province remain ed in j ealous isolation , u b sied with its own work , growing in strength , in - ul in e en d the capacity of self r e , in the spirit of d p ence , and stubbornly resisting all exercise of - authority from without . If the English speaking l popu ation flowed westward , it was in ob edience to r K natu al laws , for the ing did not aid the move ment , and the royal Governor had no authority to do so . The p ower of the colonies was that of a rising flood , slowly invading and conquering by the it u s unconscious force of s own growing volume , nle s means be foun d to hold it back by dams and em ban k m n t s e within app ointed limits . 6 it w as In the French colonies different . Here the representativefs of the crown were men bred in the s o atmo phere broad ambition and masterful , far rea ching enterprise . They studied the strong and s weak point of their rivals , and with a cautious forecast and a daring energy set themselves to of the task defeating them . If the English colonies were comparatively strong in numb ers thes e num bers could not be brought into action , while if French forces were small they were vigorously commanded and always ready at a word . It was s union confronting divi ion , en ergy confronting t o in apathy , and military centralization opposed dust rial for a democracy , and a time the dvantage ‘ w as on on Yet f all e side . in view o what France of had achieved , the patient gallantry of her ex l rers f advn o o e p , the zeal her missionaries , the f - s o turons hardihood her bush ranger , revealing to mankind the existence of this wilderness world , while her rivals plodded at their workshops , their farms , their fisheries ; in view of all this , her pre tensions were moderate and reasonable compared to those of England . — ’ W s F k t h . a s F s o r s of e Ohio hington i rs t !i it . The Treaty of Utrecht had decided that the Iroquois or Five Nations were British subj ects ; therefore it was insisted that all c oun tries con quered by them belonged to the British crown . The range of the Iroquois war parties was prodigious , un and the English laid claim to every mo tain , forest and prairie wher e an Iroquois had taken a scalp .