[Gutenberg 41152] • Braddock's Road and Three Relative Papers
- Authors
- Hulbert, Archer Butler
- Publisher
- Forgotten Books
- Tags
- roads -- united states , 1755 , united states highway 40 , braddock's campaign
- ISBN
- 9780260507716
- Date
- 1903-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.78 MB
- Lang
- en
Excerpt from Historic Highways of America, Vol. 4: Braddock's Road and Three Relative Papers
The building of Braddock's Road in 1755 across the Alleghenies was the first signifi cant token in the West of the British grit which finally overcame. Few roads ever cost so much, ever amounted to so little at first, and then finally played so important a part in the development of any continent.
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