Sparks has justly styled "one of the most remarkable events in American history," has never before been formally and circumstantially related. It is a matter of reasonable surprise, that the narrative of what Mr. A few months since, these were committed by the Society to the hands of the editor, with a request to prepare therefrom such a work as he now has the honour to lay before it and the public. Ingersoll's official residence at London, he procured, for the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, copies of the three journals which constitute the basis of this volume. THE MATTER WHICH FORMS ITS BASIS WAS PROCURED ĭuring the term of Mr. It is proper to add, that considerable aid is derived from the Society itself, and from the anticipated sale of the works thus produced. The present volume it the first fruit of this undertaking, and it is proposed to follow it with others of a like character. It already amounts to four thousand dollars. The money thus received is invested on a special trust, and the interest alone is applied to purposes of publication. On the 13th of February, 1854, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania established a Publication Fund by the terms of which any person whatever, on the payment of twenty dollars, becomes entitled to receive a copy of all of its future publications during the term of his life. Les Croniques de Messire Jean Froissart: Prol: v From the Publisher. Non pourtant rient n'est, qui ne soit sceu, ou loing ou pres. Aussi les sciences sont extracites & compilees de plusieurs Clercs: & ce, que l'bn sçait l'autre l'ignore. On dit, & it est bray, que tous edifices sont massonnez & ouubrez de plusieurs sortes de pierres, & toutes grosses vivieres sont faictes & rassemblees de plusieurs surgeons. Plan of the Battle at Braddock's Defeat, at the Beginning of the Action, July 9th, 1755 i Note.Īfin que les honnorables emprises & nobles aventures & faicts d'armes, par les guerres de France & d'Angleterre, soient notablemÄt enregistrez & mis en memoire perpetual, parquoy les preux ayent exÄple d'eux encourager en bien faisant, le bueil traicter & recorder Histoire de grad' louange. Plan of the Distribution of the Advanced Party Consisting of 400 Men
Line of March of the Detachment from the Little MeadowsĮncampment of the Detachment from the Little Meadows Map of the Country Between Forts Cumberland and Du Quesne, Between Wills Creek Plan of the Field of Battle and Distribution of the Troops as They Were at the Time of the Attack on the 9th of July, 1755