1. December 11, 1753 A 21-year-old George Washington appeared at the French Fort Le Boeuf, near Lake Erie, on a mission from Virginian Lieutenant-Governor Robert Dinwiddie, asking the French to remove their forts and interests from the areas of the Ohio River. The French declined.
2. There are four references to Devine in D of I 1)in first paragraph Laws of Nature and of Natures God, 2) next paragraph endowed by their Creator, 3) Supreme Judge of the world, and 4) divine Providence, last paragraph.
Looking at events in our history, the above phrases become more than mere words. There are remarkable occurrences specifically related to our First President in which one can see the hand of divine Providence.
3. When George Washington was 23, he served as a colonel in the Virginia militia. It was 1755, he was assigned to British General Braddocks army, involved in an ambush at Monongahela by Indians. To this day, it remains the single worst day in the annals of British military history. Of the thousand man contingent, only 23 escaped. And only three officers survived; only one of them, unwounded. Washington.
And what a target he was: 63 at a time when the average was 55! Two horses were shot out from under him. This was Washingtons comment, he was protected beyond all human probability or expectation.
"Divine Providence in American History," Medved
4. Presbyterian pastor Reverend Samuel Davies, in a sermon that very year, 1755, said, I may point out to the public that heroic youth Col. Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal [remarkable] a manner for some important service to his country. Preparation - George Washington - Lesson Plan | Teacher Resources - Library of Congress
5 The really interesting part was the testimony of a pioneer woman, Mary Draper Ingles, who was captured by a band of Shawnee Indians and held in their village for several months. She overheard French officers discussing the battle of the Monongahela with their Indian allies. An Indian chief named Red Hawk said he had shot at Washington eleven times and then ceased firing, convinced that the Great Spirit was protecting him...
Washingtons close friend and personal physician, Dr. James Craik, later wrote of meeting an elderly Indian chief who described the same battle in which the Indians ceased firing at Washington because they were convinced he was protected by the Great Spirit. "Bulletproof" George
6. A little-known sidelight connected with Braddock's defeat [referring to a battle Washington fought in during The French and Indian War, under a British General named Edward Braddock] was an "Indian prophecy" pronounced fifteen years later by an aged Indian chief.
In the fall of 1770, Washington and several other men traveled to the Ohio to examine some of the western lands that had been granted to colonial veterans of the French and Indian War. During that journey the men were met by an Indian trader who "declared that he was conducting a party which consisted of a grand sachem and some attendant warriors; that the chief was a very great man among the northwestern tribes, and the same who [had] commanded the Indians on the fall of Braddock....
Hearing of the visit of Colonel Washington to the western country, this chief had set out on a mission, the object of which [he] himself would make known." After the two groups had arranged themselves around a council fire, the old Indian rose and spoke to the group through an interpreter:
I am a chief, and the ruler over many tribes. My influence extends to the waters of the great lakes, and to the far blue mountains. I have traveled a long and weary path that I might see the young warrior of the great battle.
It was on the day when the white man's blood mixed with the streams of our forest that I first beheld this chief. I called to my young men and said, Mark yon tall and daring warrior? He is not of the red-coat tribe-he hath an Indian's wisdom, and his warriors fight as we do-himself is alone exposed. Quick, let your aim be certain, and he dies. Our rifles were levelled, rifles which but for him knew not how to miss-'twas all in vain; a power mightier far than we shielded him from harm. He cannot die in battle.
I am old, and soon shall be gathered to the great council fire of my fathers in the land of shades; but ere I go there is something bids me speak in the voice of prophecy. Listen! The Great Spirit protects that man, and guides his destinies-he will become the chief of nations, and a people yet unborn will hail him as the founder of a mighty empire! Parson Weems: the hidden George Washington
2. There are four references to Devine in D of I 1)in first paragraph Laws of Nature and of Natures God, 2) next paragraph endowed by their Creator, 3) Supreme Judge of the world, and 4) divine Providence, last paragraph.
Looking at events in our history, the above phrases become more than mere words. There are remarkable occurrences specifically related to our First President in which one can see the hand of divine Providence.
3. When George Washington was 23, he served as a colonel in the Virginia militia. It was 1755, he was assigned to British General Braddocks army, involved in an ambush at Monongahela by Indians. To this day, it remains the single worst day in the annals of British military history. Of the thousand man contingent, only 23 escaped. And only three officers survived; only one of them, unwounded. Washington.
And what a target he was: 63 at a time when the average was 55! Two horses were shot out from under him. This was Washingtons comment, he was protected beyond all human probability or expectation.
"Divine Providence in American History," Medved
4. Presbyterian pastor Reverend Samuel Davies, in a sermon that very year, 1755, said, I may point out to the public that heroic youth Col. Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal [remarkable] a manner for some important service to his country. Preparation - George Washington - Lesson Plan | Teacher Resources - Library of Congress
5 The really interesting part was the testimony of a pioneer woman, Mary Draper Ingles, who was captured by a band of Shawnee Indians and held in their village for several months. She overheard French officers discussing the battle of the Monongahela with their Indian allies. An Indian chief named Red Hawk said he had shot at Washington eleven times and then ceased firing, convinced that the Great Spirit was protecting him...
Washingtons close friend and personal physician, Dr. James Craik, later wrote of meeting an elderly Indian chief who described the same battle in which the Indians ceased firing at Washington because they were convinced he was protected by the Great Spirit. "Bulletproof" George
6. A little-known sidelight connected with Braddock's defeat [referring to a battle Washington fought in during The French and Indian War, under a British General named Edward Braddock] was an "Indian prophecy" pronounced fifteen years later by an aged Indian chief.
In the fall of 1770, Washington and several other men traveled to the Ohio to examine some of the western lands that had been granted to colonial veterans of the French and Indian War. During that journey the men were met by an Indian trader who "declared that he was conducting a party which consisted of a grand sachem and some attendant warriors; that the chief was a very great man among the northwestern tribes, and the same who [had] commanded the Indians on the fall of Braddock....
Hearing of the visit of Colonel Washington to the western country, this chief had set out on a mission, the object of which [he] himself would make known." After the two groups had arranged themselves around a council fire, the old Indian rose and spoke to the group through an interpreter:
I am a chief, and the ruler over many tribes. My influence extends to the waters of the great lakes, and to the far blue mountains. I have traveled a long and weary path that I might see the young warrior of the great battle.
It was on the day when the white man's blood mixed with the streams of our forest that I first beheld this chief. I called to my young men and said, Mark yon tall and daring warrior? He is not of the red-coat tribe-he hath an Indian's wisdom, and his warriors fight as we do-himself is alone exposed. Quick, let your aim be certain, and he dies. Our rifles were levelled, rifles which but for him knew not how to miss-'twas all in vain; a power mightier far than we shielded him from harm. He cannot die in battle.
I am old, and soon shall be gathered to the great council fire of my fathers in the land of shades; but ere I go there is something bids me speak in the voice of prophecy. Listen! The Great Spirit protects that man, and guides his destinies-he will become the chief of nations, and a people yet unborn will hail him as the founder of a mighty empire! Parson Weems: the hidden George Washington
