duquesne. accompanying him were virginia militia men. and george washington was at the head of those virginia militia assisting general braddock. so here we have colonials, british colonials from virginia working with the british commander general braddock. braddock didn't find everything easy. he found that the colonists weren't necessarily simply cooperative with the british war effort, especially farmers, and it took benjamin franklin's intervention to help procure wagons and horses for the british army. and franklin acted as an agent for general braddock and rural counties, and basically his message to the farmers was cooperate with the king. he is here to defend us. his troops that is. and if you cooperate, the king will pay well for your horses and carts. do not be afraid. you can come along as teamsters as well as the men who would manage the carts or drive them, and you will get good pay, but if you do not cooperate, then the king's business must be done and you will lose your wagons and horses and get nothing. so, of course, the

they are, have, come out of the fort duquesne. they didn't necessarily expect to meet braddock and his men, but they did. and the fierce fight ensued. opposing braddock were several hundred french soldiers and perhaps 600 natives of the pa ta wat mes, miamis, some shawnees and delawares, peoples who lived in the ohio country in the vicinity and who believed that france was now strong in the region and their best bet lay in allying with france. and strengthening their ties to the french. also significant was the fact that brad dhok rejected assistance from delaware and shawn eel chiefs. and told one delaware chief that the indians would not inherit the land. that it was the british land. braddock, in other words, believed he needed no native help. he was terribly wrong as events would prove. instead, he alienated the delawares and shawnees, some aided the french, the french had other native allies in the ohio country and its western margins. and the result was a staggering british defeat out of braddock's men who were engaged, abou

and there the french established a fort nrin 1754 called fort duquesne, and the british colonials in virginia were very concerned about that. they would not easily tolerate that. virginia claimed boundries stretching to the south sea based on its charter from the crown back in 1609. the virginians were very much expansionists. and leading men of virginia had already formed a land company which got british permission to colonize this area. and if a certain number of colonists could be situated there, let's say 100 families, that is company, by right from the king, could receive a grant of up to 500,000 acres. so there was much at stake. it was not only in the interests of ordinary british colonials in colonies such as virginia that were at stake, but also the interests of a land company such as the ohio company that wanted to expand settlement and do so in a way that was profitable. and acquire land and legal title from the crown, bargain with native peoples and then bring on setlers to establish a profitable enterprise. well, of course, the colony of virginia nech 17in 1753 decideso

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. >> ron morris, professor of entrepreneurial studies at duquesne university and host of the radio shown entrepreneur," says the novelty of her youth is what makes her business exciting. without it, simple sugars would nus be another cosmetics company. in order to have her best shot at making simple sugars into a million-dollar company, morris gave lazari surprising advice. >> i said, if i were you i would drop out of school immediately and spend the next year or two trying to push this company over the top. as i said to her, right now you've got one shot in ten of hitting a home run. >> and although it make seem to break all of the conventional rules, to become a full-time entrepreneur like sophia is, and put high school on hold, that's what entrepreneurs do best. break the rules. >> i really want to take advantage of all my opportunities with simple sugars but i also don't really want to completely give away my high school experience. but i really think that i have a lot that i can learn from taking a year off and just working on my business. that would be equally as valuable as what

the university of pittsburgh and the university of pittsburgh medical center, carnegie mellon and duquesne university. and they are the most exciting and the most far-reaching, far-sighted enterprise in pittsburgh. it's true in lots of places. we have transformed in from this mill town of these thrilling universities in science and medicine and that's a major accomplishment. i kept thinking why can't westbound cathedral builders? why aren't we cathedral builders? what will our cathedral will be? maybe we're already building them, these great universities. and maybe that's what we ought to keep our mind on. [applause] >> guest: thank you all very much. >> host: david mccullough, ladies and gentlemen, all booktv. this is his latest book, the greater journey: americans in paris. this has been booktv covering the national book festival. we would also like to thank the librarian of congress james billington right dooern for responsing the national book festival. it expanded to two days this year. and we have a gift bag -- we were going to give it to david mccullough but since the editor in chie

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