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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.
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, 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]
They developed the template trail and in large part the route for what became known on the eastern slopes as the eastern part of Braddock's Road. In 1755 during the French and Indian War (the North American front of the Seven Years' War between the English and French), English General Edward Braddock used the eastern part of Nemacolin's Path as ...
Major-general Edward Braddock (commander-in-chief) DOW. Colonel George Washington, formerly of the Virginia Regiment (volunteer aide) Captain Robert Orme, Coldstream Guards (aide) WIA; Captain Roger Morris, 48th Foot (aide) WIA; Captain William Shirley (secretary) KIA; Captain Francis Halkett, 44th Foot (brigade major)
Sir Peter Halkett, 2nd Baronet (21 June 1695 – 9 July 1755) was a Scottish baronet who served in the British army and was Member of Parliament for Stirling Burghs from 1734 to 1741. His regiment was posted to North America during the 1754–1763 French and Indian War ; he and his youngest son James served in the ill-fated Braddock Expedition ...
Braddock's Field is a historic battlefield on the banks of the Monongahela River, at Braddock, Pennsylvania, near the junction of Turtle Creek, about nine miles southeast of the "Forks of the Ohio" in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1755, the Battle of the Monongahela was fought on Braddock's Field, which ended the Braddock Expedition.