A History of the United States Before the Revolution : With Some Account of the Aborigines
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Their progress was very much retarded by tlie necessity of cutting a road: and, lest the enemy should have time to collect in great force, the general concluded to set forward with twelve hundred select men; while Colonel Dun- bar should follow slowly in the rear, with the main body and the heavy baggage. Mr. Washington's regiment had been split into separate companies; and Ii5(i THE UNITED STATES CHAP. V. lie had ouly joined the army as aid to the general. The rouglmessof the country prevented... the advanced coi'ps from reaching the Monongahela till the 8th of July. It was resolved to attack Du Quesne, the very next day; and Lieutenant-Colonel Gage was sent in front, with three hundred British regulars; while the ge- neral himself followed, at some distance, with the main body. lie had been cautioned to provide against an ambuscade, by sending forward some provincial com- panies to scour the woods; but he held the provincials and the eneu\y in equal contempt. The Monongahela was crossed the second time, about seven miles from Du Q,uesne; and the army was pressing forward in an open wood, tln-ough high and thick grass, — when the front was suddenly thrown into disorder, by a volley of small arms.
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