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Roads
INDEX
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- Old Glade: highland location, 5, 16; route of, 17–19; early work on, 24–33; retreat of workmen on, at Braddock's defeat, 32; use in early war, 44–64; estimate of service of, 47; forts held, 63; early condition of, between Philadelphia and Bedford, 78; Bouquet's itinerary on, 78; defended by means of a chain of forts, 79–80; Virginia's influence against, 84–141, 153–154; Indian trail followed, 92; Armstrong marks out, 97; map of, 103; Forbes compares Braddock's Road with, 107; Bouquet writes Forbes in favor of, 109–110; route determined to Loyalhanna, 110; Washington describes condition of (1758), 118–123; Pennsylvania's need of, 138; boon to Pennsylvania that was deserved by Virginia, 139–141; itinerary from Bedford to Edmunds Swamp, 142; building of, 142–162; details of building, from Raystown to Ligonier, 144–149; Bouquet uses, in Pontiac's Rebellion, 176–182; use in Revolutionary War, 186–189; General Irvine on condition of, 188; Ohio Valley dependent on, 192; western forts dependent on, 192; importance in last days of eighteenth century, 192; Professor McMaster describes, 193–194; Cumberland Road unable to displace, 195; a popular pioneer route, 195–196; Ohio Company of
