BRADDOCK, Edward, British General . Letter signed ("E Braddock") to Pennsylvania Governor Robert Hunter Morris, Alexandria, Virginia, 15 April 1755. BRADDOCK'S LAST STAND: "I AM NOW ON MY MARCH...TO REMOVE THE FRENCH FROM THEIR ENCROACHMENTS". A very rare letter of the ill-fated Braddock, written just before his last, fatal battle on his wilderness campaign. Braddock solicits aid from Native American allies in his expedition against the French forts on the Ohio River (Fort Doquesne): "As I am inform'd there are a Number of Indians in your Province that formerly liv'd near the River Ohio, & were driven from hence by the French, I must desire you would acquaint them that I am now on my March with a Body of the King's Troops to remove the French from their Encroachments upon that River, & to restore that Country to our Allies the Indians...And as those Indians must be very well acquainted with that Country...I must desire you will prevail with the able Men of [them] to join me." He concludes: "I doubt not your Assembly will take care of the Women & Children 'till the Return of the Men, as they will be very troublesome in the Camps." Two months after this letter, at the head of a force of 1,400 British regulars and 700 provincials, Braddock led his army westward along a wilderness road which had been cut, at great cost and delay, through the Alleghenies at Fort Cumberland. The Indian scouts he had recruited deserted before the battle when Braddock ordered their families home. Without adequate woodland scouts, his advance party was surprised in a wooded ravine eight miles from Fort Dusquesne by a force of French, Canadian and Indian allies. Braddock was unwilling to allow the men to take cover, and the army suffered almost 50 casualties in the devastating attack. Braddock, who had four horses killed beneath him, was carried from the field mortally wounded and died four days later.
BRADDOCK, Edward, British General . Letter signed ("E Braddock") to Pennsylvania Governor Robert Hunter Morris, Alexandria, Virginia, 15 April 1755. BRADDOCK'S LAST STAND: "I AM NOW ON MY MARCH...TO REMOVE THE FRENCH FROM THEIR ENCROACHMENTS". A very rare letter of the ill-fated Braddock, written just before his last, fatal battle on his wilderness campaign. Braddock solicits aid from Native American allies in his expedition against the French forts on the Ohio River (Fort Doquesne): "As I am inform'd there are a Number of Indians in your Province that formerly liv'd near the River Ohio, & were driven from hence by the French, I must desire you would acquaint them that I am now on my March with a Body of the King's Troops to remove the French from their Encroachments upon that River, & to restore that Country to our Allies the Indians...And as those Indians must be very well acquainted with that Country...I must desire you will prevail with the able Men of [them] to join me." He concludes: "I doubt not your Assembly will take care of the Women & Children 'till the Return of the Men, as they will be very troublesome in the Camps." Two months after this letter, at the head of a force of 1,400 British regulars and 700 provincials, Braddock led his army westward along a wilderness road which had been cut, at great cost and delay, through the Alleghenies at Fort Cumberland. The Indian scouts he had recruited deserted before the battle when Braddock ordered their families home. Without adequate woodland scouts, his advance party was surprised in a wooded ravine eight miles from Fort Dusquesne by a force of French, Canadian and Indian allies. Braddock was unwilling to allow the men to take cover, and the army suffered almost 50 casualties in the devastating attack. Braddock, who had four horses killed beneath him, was carried from the field mortally wounded and died four days later.
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