o Great Britain may be well exhibited in an extract from the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. The experience

rk. As it was not done promptly, he got into a rage, and, according to the pioneer woodsman, George Croghan, "stormed like a lion rampant." He declared that "by fire and sword" he would oblige the inhabitants to build that road

n this state of trouble between the people and the English officers, who knew so little of the wilderness, Benjamin Franklin, then forty-nine years of age, was called on to act as peacemaker. He visited Braddock and was rec

ne,' said he, 'I am to proceed to Niagara; and, having taken that, on to Frontenac, if the season will allow time; and I suppose it

gh forests all the way, the thin line of troops that would have to be stretched out in the march alo

ed be a formidable enemy to raw American militia, but upon the King's regular and

riety in my disputing with a military man in

ton was now getting. The place he had on General Braddock's staff was teaching him the tactics of English generals, against which he was a

in recent times it has been more and more lessened in the length of description because of the increasing story of American affairs. Washington's