just another fake quote that never happened.
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"First, that erecting forts at greater distances than fifteen or eighteen miles, or a day's march asunder, and garrisoning them with less than eighty or a hundred men each, is not answering the intention ; because, if they are at a greater distance from each other"
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"Secondly, our frontiers are of such extent, that if the enemy were to make a formidable attack on one side, before the troops on the other could give assistance, they might overrun the country"
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Thirdly, the cost to the country in building these forts, and removing stores and provisions into them.
Fourthly, where and when will this expense end? We may be assured, if we do not endeavour to remove the cause, we shall be as liable to the same incursions seven years hence as now ; indeed more so. Because, if the French are allowed to possess those lands in peace, they will have the entire command of the Indians, and grow stronger in their alliance ; while we, by our defensive schemes and pusillanimous behaviour, shall exhaust our treasury, reduce our strength, and become the contempt of these savage nations, who are every day enriching themselves with the plunder and spoils of our people."
pp 221-222
Writings of George Washington Vol.2
To the Earl of Loudon
Fort Loudon, February, 1757.
