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Title: The Pennsylvania railroad: its origin, construction, condition, and connections. Embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Sipes, William B., d. 1905 Pennsylvania Railroad. Passenger Dept
Subjects: Pennsylvania Railroad
Publisher: Philadelphia (Pennsylvania Railroad Co.) Passenger Dept.
Contributing Library: Northeastern University, Snell Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Northeastern University, Snell Library

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of the fort, to take a planof the works. In the meantime he orderedthe reveille to be beaten in different places.This parade drew out the enemy in greatforce, and an obstinate engagement ensued.The English were defeated with a loss oftwo hundred and seventy-three killed andforty-two wounded. Major Grant and MajorLewis were taken prisoners and sent to Mon-treal. Of the eight Virginia officers fivewere killed, one wounded, and one cap-tured. Major Grant, after his exchange,returned to this place and erected a re-doubt, upon which was a tablet inscribedwith his name, and bearing evidence to thefact that he had then attained the rank ofcolonel. The works abandoned and burnt by theFrench were repaired and reconstructed.Two hundred men of Washingtons regi-ment were left to garrison the place,—thescarcity of provisions rendering it impos-sible to provide for a larger force. GeneralForbes returned to Philadelphia, where hesoon afterwards died. In the summer of 168 THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
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VIEW AT FIFTH AVENUE AND SIXTH STRP:ET, PITTSBURG. 1759 General Stanwix arrived and com-menced the erection of a new fortification,the plan for which was made by an en_gineernamed Rutzer. This new fort was an elabo-rate affair, costing the British Government,according to Judge Brackenridge, ;^6o,ooo ;and while its position, commanded on allsides by high hills, would in this age bedeemed a strange military selection, yet atthe time of its erection it was declared for-midable enough to secure to the latestposterity the British empire on the Ohio. Nothing of marked interest occurred atFort Pitt after its erection until Pontiacs war, in 1763, when it and other militaryposts in the north-west were attacked by thesavages. Its garrison, reinforced by someIndian traders, held out gallantly untilrelief arrived under Colonel Bouquet. Anaccount of this expedition has alreadybeen given in the sketch of Westmorelandcounty. In October, 1772, orders werereceived by the commanding officer of thefort,

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