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Duquesne
[ doo-keyn, dyoo-; French dy-ken ]
noun
- A·bra·ham [a, -b, r, a, -, am], 1610–88, French naval commander.
- a city in SW Pennsylvania, on the Monongahela River.
- Fort. Fort Duquesne.
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Admiral Duquesne, then aged eighty, was strongly urged by the king to change his religion.
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No one believed that Fort Duquesne, far away in the forests beyond the mountains, could hold out against this formidable array.
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The most westerly fort in Virginia was fifty miles further west than Fort Duquesne.
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For before Fort Duquesne was reached it was decided not to attempt to continue the campaign further.
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The remainder at Fort Duquesne were glad now to hurry away into their winter quarters in their distant homelands.
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