The History of An Expedition Against Fort Du Quesne, in 1755 Under Major-General Edward Braddock
The History of An Expedition Against Fort Du Quesne, in 1755 Under Major-General Edward Braddock
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On the 15th of January — ^the veiy ddy after Braddock had sailed for Virginia — the Due de Mirepoix proposed that each crown should prohibit all present hostilities, and that the matter of the Ohio territory should be left to an amicable adjustment; the destination and motive of the expedition which had just started being first pacifically explained. The ambassador could not at that very moment have been ignorant that his madter was straining every nerve to throw such a force into Canada as wou...ld defy any attack ; and they whom he addressed were well aware that he knew all » VI. C. R., 162, 181. IL P. A., 213, 288. Penn. Ga«., Npe. 1379, 1888. VIII. Hm. Penn. Reg., 319. * « n. P. A., 288. And see Appendix, No. IV. Digitized by VjOOQ IC INTRODUCTOBT KKMOIB. 180 thk. They, therefore, on the 22nd of tibe same monlih, fiimished hin with a Jesuitical reply, declaring that the only end of Braddock's mimon was the defence and pro- tection of the Eing^s dominions in America^ without any design to attack those of any other prince, or in any wise open the door to war; and that as to the Ohio countiy, the French nMurt abandon and destroy all their settkfments there, or, in other words, put matters in the condition they were in befofe the Treaty of Utrecht, before a friendly nego- tiation on that point could be thought of.
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