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Show I PITTSBURG IN. 1755. 1 - j- -l.'iBltejilUlJlstory rt AmcrlcanStev J flaking. ... , Upon a certain summer's dr.y in the year J 785, there might have been wit-nebhed wit-nebhed tho advance of n small detachment detach-ment of British and Colonial troops not much over a thousand strong, through the dense forests that lined the banks of the Monongahela River, a few miles above the point whero it Nnorges with tho Allegheny. The objective point of thu expedition was a i.tnull fort at the confluence of these rivers, which formed one of the most important Units in that chain of military postR and trading Million j, which the restless and far-.seelng energy of the French colonial colon-ial government had strung out between the mouths of tho St. Lawrence nnd the Mississippi by way of the (J rent Lakes, the Ohio and tlio Mississippi Valley. In tio van of the littlo army,, bearing himself with a confidence born of much successful warfare In other lands under less diillcult conditions, and heedless of tho warnings of his young coloninl aide-de-camp, George Washington, who had command of th rear guard, was Qen. Brnddock, Advancing Ad-vancing In a close formation, which was better suited to tho open spaces of Continental battle grounds than to the nll-but-impenetrnble forests of the American Am-erican frontier, the devoted band marched right into an ambush of the French regulars and their Indian illies and wns quickly cut to pieces IhmliWk was killed and Col. Washington, Washing-ton, his inllitaiy coat pierced more than oncu by tho bullets of the French sharpshooters, sharp-shooters, barely succeeded in carrying tlio shattered remnants of the force back over the Alleghenies into Colonial territory. The political and military considerations that prompted thnt (lis iibtrous expedition wero worthy of a better fate; and, Indeed, subsequent history his-tory has proved that in endeavoring to capture Fort Du Quesnc aud break the bounds which the French were endeavoring endea-voring to set the westward development of thu British Colonies, our forefathers had taken n just view cf the situation, Today the objective point of tho expedition expe-dition forms tho site of Pittsburg, one of the greatest centers of industrial activity ac-tivity in t,ie world! while hidden nniong tho back streets of the olty, and rescued from destruction and preserved through tho caro and inuniflcenso of a local historical society, may still be found Fort l)u Quesnc, or rathor its immediate im-mediate successor Fort Pitt. A few miles up tho river, at the town of Brad-dock Brad-dock and on lhe Identical spot where the battlo occurred, is to ho found ouo of tho greatest steel works in tho world; while for many n mile along ''H those yory banks of tho Monongahela Vaaal where Brnddock laboriously cut his v'aal way through the woods, Is to be found jl tho most wonderfnl aggregation of MH coking ovens, blast furnaces, nnd roll- H mgs mills in tlio world. Although just --v now we are eoneerned merely with tho Taal history of tho development of these in- BBB dustrios, we may bo pardoned a refer- euco to the fact that in St. Louis, five fl hundred miles to the westward of the laafl Hraddock battlefield, the great rcpub- ! lie which has spiung from that strip of BBB colonics that fringed the Atlantis sea- jIbbI board in 1755, is just now preparing to -J laafl celebrate the one hundrelh anniversary I f M of its acquisition from France of the 1 laal vast territories from which that couu- H try sought to bar the early colonials y-' H out. From the Iron and Steel Number 'H of the Scientific American. M |