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In 1758, at the height of the French and Indian War, British General John Forbes and his troops undertook the daunting task of carving a trail more than 300 miles long through the Pennsylvania backcountry and taking French Fort Duquesne at the Forks of the Ohio River, following a route linked with Philadelphia, Carlisle, Bedford, Ligonier, and Pittsburgh.
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Carlisle, Pennsylvania · United States
