Stanwix

GW told Stanwix that the quartermaster had been a sergeant in royal service for many years and appeared worthy of the assignment in the Virginia Regiment.

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Washington told Dinwiddie in July that he had heard from Stanwix, who “approved much of the steps I had taken.”

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In early March a cashiered officer named Major John Smith presented Washington and Colonel Stanwix a plan for invading Ohio, based on his alleged experience as an escaped prisoner of the French.

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“Surely,” Washington sneered to Stanwix, “he intended to provide them with wings to facilitate their passage over so mountainous and extensive a country.”

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Williamsburg advised Washington to fill the gaps by calling up militia, but as he told Stanwix in mid-July, “no dependence is to be placed upon them.”

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GW to RD, MAY 24 and 29, to John Stanwix, MAY 28, 1757, GWP S2 L4.

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Washington learned that Stanwix had been promoted to brigadier and ordered to take post between the Mohawk River and Lake Ontario, where he built a work later called Fort Stanwix.

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In response, Stanwix ordered him to forward a large part of his arms and ammunition to supply other troops going to South Carolina.

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Getting no response, he asked Stanwix, who told him to use his own judgment.

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Washington worried that he would be criticized for not relieving Fort Cumberland, and he had Stanwix reconfirm that he had been ordered to make a stand at Fort Loudoun.

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