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EDWARD BRADDOCK

Edward Braddock was a Scottish soldier. He was born in 1695 at Perthshire and died in 1755. He arrived in Virginia, on February 20th 1755, to assume command in the campaign against the French settlers, being appointed major-general and commander of the British army in the expedition against the French on the river Ohio, in 1755. Having organised an army of regulars and provincials, among whom was George Washington, Edward Braddock marched against Fort Duquesne. After crossing the Monongahela with 1,200 chosen men, the army was ambushed by the French supported by Indians and was defeated with nearly half his troop killed, Edward Braddock himself being mortally wounded dying four
days later.
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