afterwards was he able to take Fort Duquesne from the French.

Then another body of men was sent through the woods and over the
mountains to capture this fort. But their general did as Braddock had
done before him, spending so much time cutting a highroad through the
woods that the whole season passed away and he was ready to turn and
march back. Then Washington, who was with him, asked permission to go
forward with his rangers. The general told him to go and he hurried
through the woods and to the fort. When he came near it the French took
to their boats and paddled off down the river, so that Washington took
the fort without firing a shot.

CHAPTER X

THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR AND THE STORY OF THE ACADIANS

HAVE any of my young readers read the beautiful poem of "Evangeline,"
written by the poet Longfellow? Very likely it is too old for you,
though the time will come when you will read it and enjoy it greatly.
Evangeline was a pretty and pious woman who lived in a French settlement
called Acadia, on the Atlantic coast. You will not find this name on any
of your maps, but must look for Nova Scotia, by which name Acadia is now
known. The story of Evangeline tells us about the cruel way in which the
poor Acadians were treated by the English. It is a sad and pathetic
story, as you will see when you have read it.

It was one of the wicked results of the war between the French and the
English. There were many cruel deeds in this war, and the people who
suffered the most were those who had the least to do with the fighting.
In one place a quiet, happy family of father, mother and children,
living on a lonely farm, and not dreaming of any danger, suddenly hear
the wild war-whoop of the Indians, and soon see their doors broken open
and their house blazing, and are carried off into cruel captivity--those
who are not killed on the spot. In another place all the people of a
village are driven from their comfortable homes by soldiers and forced
to wander and beg their bread in distant lands. And all this takes place
because the kings of England and France, three thousand miles away, are
quarreling about some lands which do not belong to either of them. If
those who brought on wars had to suffer for them they would soon come to
an end. But they revel and feast in their splendid palaces while poor
and innocent people endure the suffering. The war that began in the
wilds of western Pennsylvania, between the French and Ind