Note 158 — § 8. FRANKLIN ACTS IN CONCERT WITH BRADDOCK'S ARMY. ORGANIZATION OF MILITIA.
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In 1752 the French began connecting their settlements on the Lakes and on the Mississippi by a chain of forts on the Ohio. The English warned off the intruders upon what they deemed their territory, and sent General Braddock to the colonists' aid. War was declared in 1756.