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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 4: (search)
ester, in 1753, renewed to Virginia the proposal for an English fort on the Ohio, and promised aid in repelling the French. Dinwiddie to Glen of S. C. 23 May, 1753. They repaired to Pennsylvania with the same message, and were met by evasions. The ministry which had, from the first, endeavored to put upon America the expenses of Indian treaties and of colonial defence, continued to receive early and accurate intelligence from Dinwiddie. Lieutenant Gov. Dinwiddie to Lords of Trade, 16 June, 1753. The system they adopted gave evidence not only of the reckless zeal of the Lords of Trade to extend the jurisdiction of Great Britain beyond the Alleghanies, but also of the imbecility of the cabinet. The king in council, swayed by the representations of the Board, decided, that the valley of the Ohio was in the western part of the colony of Virginia; and that the march of certain Europeans to erect a fort in parts claimed to be of his dominions, was to be resisted as an act of hostil