You are Lieutenant Colonel George Washington, an American-born English soldier. You have been sent by the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia to defend the Ohio Valley. The French want access to the Ohio Valley so they can continue to use it for fur trading. You have orders to stop them, because the Lt. Governor insists that the Ohio Valley is part of Virginia.
You assemble your soldiers and march to the Ohio Valley. This is the first command you have gotten, and you are eager to do a good job. If this goes well, you might get promoted to a full colonel, or even a general.

When you get to Ohio, it’s a total wilderness: you have marched for days and all you see are miles and miles of trees. You arrive at Fort LeBoeuf, one of the French forts, and deliver a polite letter asking the French to leave. The French commander informs you that they will not. You return to Virginia to inform the Lt. Governor of the bad news.
To secure the English claim on the Ohio Valley, another English military commander goes west to set up a fort. They have a difficult time building the fort, and before they are finished, the French attack and take over the fort. The French finish building the fort and name it Fort Duquesne. It takes days for the news of this event to reach you in Virginia.

When Lieutenant Colonel Washington hears about what happened to the English fort, what will he think?

What should Lieutenant Colonel Washington do next?

The following excerpts that illustrate darl's and cash's points of view from william faulkner's as i lay dying: from darl: tull's wagon stands beside the spring, hitched to the rail, the reins wrapped about the seat stanchion. in the wagon bed are two chairs. jewel stops at the spring and takes the gourd from the willow branch and drinks. i pass him and mount the path, beginning to hear cash's saw. when i reach the top he has quit sawing. standing in a litter of chips, he is fitting two of the boards together. between the shadow spaces they are yellow as gold, like soft gold, bearing on their flanks in smooth undulations the marks of the adze blade: a good carpenter, cash is. he holds the two planks on the trestle, fitted along the edges in a quarter of the finished box. he kneels and squints along the edge of them, then he lowers them and takes up the adze. a good carpenter. addie bundren could not want a better one, better box to lie in. it will give her confidence and comfort. i go on to the house, followed by the chuck. chuck. chuck.of the adze.from cash: i made it on the bevel.there is more surface for the nails to grip.there is twice the gripping-surface to each seam.the water will have to seep into it on a slant. water moves easiest up and down or straight across.in a house people are upright two thirds of the time. so the seams and joints are made up-and-down. because the stress is up-and-down.in a bed where people lie down all the time, the joints and seams are made sideways, because the stress is sideways.except.a body is not square like a crosstie.animal magnetism.the animal magnetism of a dead body makes the stress come slanting, so the seams and joints of a coffin are made on a bevel.compare how the two narrators tell the story of addie bundren's impending death. is either narrator reliable? explain what the reader learns about each narrator. be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.