About This Book
A thorough historical account reconstructs a colonial military advance across the Allegheny region, tracing the survey, construction, and use of a western military highway. It examines competing French and English approaches to the interior, the Virginia campaign and marches between Atlantic ports and frontier forts, firsthand journals and battle narratives — notably the Monongahela engagement — and contemporary maps and illustrations. Complementary essays describe backwoods conditions, later route identifications, and the road's logistical and strategic significance in opening the trans-Allegheny interior.
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