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107 After Braddock's defeat, Franklin intro- duced a bill into the Assembly of Pennsyl- vania for establishing a volunteer militia, and having received a commission as commander, he soon raised a corps of five hundred and sixty men. His son, who had seen some ser- vice in the previous war, was now of great assistance in helping to bring this little army into something like order. The northwestern frontier, which had been sorely infested by the enemy, was the quarter whence danger was most appre...hended, and the governor prevailed upon Franklin to pro- ceed thither, and build a line of forts for the protection of the inhabitants. The Indians had recently burned Gnaden- hutten, a village of the Moravians, and mur- dered the people. Franklin assembled the companies at Beth- lehem, the chief Moravian settlement, and was agreeably surprised to find it in so good a posture of defence. It was in January, 1755, that the important business of fort-building began. The soldiers encamped upon the ground where Gnadenhutten had stood, and a Ibrtification of pine-trees was soon raised, — a poor protection, indeed, against the assaults of 108 LIFE OF FEANKLIN.
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