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ince. He had traced this company as far as Chest Creek, but there lost the trail, but he thought that probably they might have built the redoubt as a place of defense against pursuers.
Some correspondent, having written for The Johnstown Tribune, an account of an ancient breastwork on "Breastwork Hill," in Somerset County, I furnished that paper an account of the breastwork on what is known as Fort Hill (emphasis on Fort), the result of which was that I was sent to investigate what was in the tradition, if anything, one result of which was that I reported that I believed that it had not been built by white men, and another that I have done a great part of the local historical work for The Tribune ever since, for which I have always received remuneration to the full amount of the bills presented; so that to the managers of that newspaper publication, past and present, to whom Cambria County is more indebted than to any other source for the preservation of its local history, the credit is due.
Recently, Mr. Joseph Zerbe related to me that once when descending the Allegheny River in a steamboat, a follow passenger told him that the breastwork was built by Washington during the French and Indian war; but Washington was never within the bounds of Cambria County. Of course, it might have been built on his suggestion.
Incursions On the Kittanning Path During the French and Indian Wars - Armstrong's Expedition to Reduce Kittanning.
After the defeat of the Braddock expedition against Fort Du Quesne at the battle of the Monongahela, July 9, 1755, by a force of French, Delaware, Shawnese and other Indians under Bojeau, and after the death of Gen. Braddock, Col. Washington led back into Virginia the remains of the defeated army, and the frontier settlements were open to the incursions of hostile Indians and French, parties of hostiles from the Indian stronghold of Kittanning from time to time, made incursions into the settlements in the Juniata Valley. To put an end to these incursions, an expedition under command of Lieut. Col. John Armstrong, of the Second Battalion, Pennsylvania, consisting of 307 men, of four companies, the captains of which were Hugh Mercer (afterwards Gen. Mercer), Hamilton, Ward and Potter, left Fort Shirley August 31, 1756, and in two
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