GW was en route from Wills Creek, Pa./Md., which he left on 29 April, to Redstone Creek on the Monongahela River in Pennsylvania. At Redstone Creek, the troops would build a fortification and wait until they received both the men and supplies necessary to launch a well-prepared attack on the French. GW and his soldiers were widening and clearing the roads as they journeyed but, as GW stated in his 9 May letter to Va. Lt. Gov. Robert Dinwiddie, the strain of this labor “prevent[ed] our Marchg above 2, 3, or 4 Miles a Day.”