"Join, or die": America's press during the French and Indian War

From: Journalism History | Date: October 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

America's Press during the French and Indian War

The news reaching the Pensylvania Gazette had for months been troublesome to Benjamin Franklin. Indian raids upon colonial settlements in the back country had claimed the lives of numerous people. The French, longtime enemies of the British, were massing troops in the Ohio Valley. French ships were gathering in the Caribbean. Rumors of French alliances with Native Americans from Canada to the Mississippi River delta meant an army of incomparable strength might be assembling west of the Appalachian Mountains, and the journals of a young ...

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