These very hostile movements towards England are all part and parcel of the old plan.

She still desires to hold the whole territory by this chain of forts, and shut England in between the sea and those mountains yonder.

You have heard, I doubt not, how England is resolved not to be thus held in check.

Major George Washington and General Braddock have both made attacks upon Fort Duquesne, and though both have suffered defeat owing to untoward causes and bad generalship, the spirit within them is still unquenched.

Fort Duquesne, Fort Niagara, Fort Ticonderoga--these are the three northern links of the chain, and I think that England will never rest until she has floated her flag over these three forts.
"We have come from far to the heart of that great struggle which all men know must come.