ir charge, and toiled forward through the forest, making a military road toward Fort Duquesne, which was at th

had been his companion through the most perilous part of his romantic journey when he carr

l companies of Indians. A messenger was hastily despatched to Captain Mackay at Fort Necessity, thirteen miles away, and he came on with the swivel guns of the

diers" and so would not belittle themselves with the labors of the retreat. At Great Meadows, in the center of which was Fort

ed Indians surrounded the place. Finding that the English had escaped, they were about to return to Fort Duquesne, when a deserter from Washington's camp a

t at once to captu

efences of the fort. The Indians seeing such inferior equipment for

they could see. All day Washington kept his men close sheltered in the trenches, keeping the enemy at rifle's distance in the

ington at first refused, but their condition was hopeless. The only person with them who under

Braam tried to translate it by the light of a candle, under cover of a rude tent, through which the rain was pouring upon candle, paper and persons. The terms of

ated, did not leave a shred of honor for the defeated colonists. It was then believed that Van Braam had purposely mistranslated it in the service of the French, with whom he and Captain

t Will's creek, and Washington went o

, as well as the conduct of Washington, and the questions of the surrender. Thanks and rewards were freely voted to the