We the people series. An account of the first permanent English settlement in North America, with all its tragedies and disasters, established in 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia.

In 1755, Major General Edward Braddock and two army regiments set out from Alexandria with the objective of capturing Fort Duquesne. In order to accomplish this, they first had to build a road across the Appalachian Mountains. The road they built was one of the most impressive military engineering accomplishments of the eighteenth century.