Identifier: historyofunited01andr (find matches)
Title: History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Andrews, Elisha Benjamin, 1844-1917 James, James Alton, 1864-1962
Subjects: United States -- History
Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Map of Braddocks Field. vice, marching and fighting stiffly accordingto the rules of the Old World military art,heeding none of Franklins and Washing-tons sage hints touching savage modes ofwarfare. The consequence was this braveBritons defeat and death. As he drewnear to Fort Du Quesne, he fell into a care-
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The Death of Braddock. 1755) rHE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR 359 fully prepared ambuscade. Four horseswere shot under him. Mounting a fifthhe spurred to the front to inspire his men,forbidding them seek the slightest cover,as Washington urged and as the provin-cials successfully did. The regulars, obey-ing, were half of them killed in their tracks,the remainder retreating, in panic at first,to Philadelphia. Braddock died, and wasburied at Great Meadows, where his graveis still to be seen. Washington was the only mounted offi-cer in this action who was not killed orfatally wounded, a fact at the time regardedspecially providential. On his return, agedtwenty-three, the Rev. Samuel Davies, after-ward President of the College of New Jer-sey, referred to him in his sermon as thatheroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom Icannot but hope Providence has preservedin so signal a manner for some importantservice to his country. The early part of this war witnessed thetragic occurrence immortalized by Lo

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