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BRADDOCK, EDWARD (1695?1755),

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 369 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BOS-BRI
BRADDOCK, EDWARD (1695?1755), ,British general, was born in Perthshire,
Scotland
 , about 1695. He was the son of Major-General
Edward
  Braddock (d. 1725), and joined the Coldstrearn
Guards
  in 1710. In 1747 as a
lieutenant
 -colonel he served under the prince of Orange in Holland during the siege of Bergen-op-Zoom. In 1753 he was given the colonelcy of the 14th foot, and in 1754 he became a major-general. Being appointed shortly afterwards to command against the French in America, he landed in Virginia in
February
  1755. After some months of preparation, in which he was hampered by administrative confusion and want of resources, he took the field with a picked column, in which George Washington served as a volunteer officer, intended to attack Fort Duquesne (Pittsburg, Pa.). The column crossed the Monongahela river on the 9th of July and almost immediately afterwards
fell
  into an ambuscade of French and Indians. The troops were completely surprised and routed, and Braddock, rallying his men time after time,
fell
  at last mortally wounded. He was carried off the field with difficulty, and died on the 13th. He was buried at
Great
  Meadows, where the remnant of the column halted on its
retreat
  to reorganize. (See SEVEN YEARS' WAR.)


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