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Scouting for the English, by Robert Griffing.
Credit: Painting by Robert Griffing; used by permission of Paramount Press, Inc.
In his 1758 campiagn at the forks of the Ohio, General Forbes benefited from a timely treaty with the Indians, many of whom joined with him to evict the French. In this painting Robert Griffing shows a Cherokee with the Forbes expedition scouting Fort Duquesne.