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Map of Braddock's Military Road. The Braddock Expedition, also known as Braddock's Campaign or Braddock's Defeat, was a British military expedition which attempted to capture Fort Duquesne from the French in 1755 during the French and Indian War.
The defeat marked the end of the Braddock Expedition, by which the British had hoped to capture Fort Duquesne and gain control of the strategic Ohio Country. Both Braddock and Beaujeu were killed in action during the battle. Braddock was mortally wounded in the fight and died during the retreat near present-day Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
At the beginning of the French and Indian War, Edward Braddock's defeat left Pennsylvania without a professional military force. [1] Lenape chiefs Shingas and Captain Jacobs launched dozens of Shawnee and Delaware raids against British colonial settlements, [2] killing and capturing hundreds of colonists and destroying settlements across western and central Pennsylvania. [3]
The one-and-a-half-story wooden mill was built before 1754 by John McDowell, [2] who had established a homestead nearby in 1740. [3]: 1 It first appears in historical documents in a letter of June, 1755 from Governor Robert Hunter Morris to General Braddock, in which Morris proposes using the mill to store supplies for Braddock's upcoming expedition: "Mr. Peters, who in his Way from the Camp ...
Braddock's Battlefield History Center is a small American museum and visitors center on the site of the Battle of the Monongahela of July 9, 1755. It features a collection of art, documents, and artifacts about the Braddock Expedition and the French and Indian War as it unfolded at the Forks of the Ohio .
Braddock Road trace near Fort Necessity, Pennsylvania. The Braddock Road was a military road built in 1755 in what was then British America and is now the United States.It was the first improved road to cross the barrier of the successive ridgelines of the Appalachian Mountains.
At the beginning of the French and Indian War, Braddock's defeat at the Battle of the Monongahela left Pennsylvania without a professional military force. [5] Lenape chiefs Shingas and Captain Jacobs launched dozens of Shawnee and Delaware raids against British colonial settlements, [6] killing and capturing hundreds of colonists and destroying settlements across western and central ...
The Monongahela River valley was the site of a famous battle that was one of the first in the French and Indian War—the Braddock Expedition (May–July 1755). It resulted in a sharp defeat for two thousand British and Colonial forces against those of the French and their Native American allies.