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Updated: June 21, 2025
In North America the French were scheming to push their dominion down the Ohio-Mississippi Valley from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, in the rear of the line of British colonies planted on the seaboard from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Florida.
When Captain Bixby made his celebrated night crossing at Hat Island a quarter of a million dollars in ship and cargo would have been the price of an error in judgment, according to Mark Twain, * a good authority. *Op. cit., p. 101 The Yorktown, built in 1844 for the Ohio-Mississippi trade, was typical of that epoch of inland commerce.
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