"Braddock’s Defeat — The Battle of Monongahela and the" Topic
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Tango01 | 29 Mar 2022 10:02 p.m. PST |
… Road to Revolution "The reports described how a column of British regulars and American colonial troops were ambushed by French and Native American forces in the remote Ohio Country. Braddock's expedition had spent the previous six weeks traversing more than 100 miles of wilderness with the goal of capturing Fort Duquesne, which sat at the strategically vital Forks of the Ohio River (modern Pittsburgh). The British were only a few miles from the enemy outpost on July 9 when they were attacked. In the space of just four hours, 976 out of a force of 1,469 Redcoats and provincials were dead or injured. Braddock himself was mortally wounded in the clash, and the remnants of his force struggled back across the Appalachian Mountains before abandoning the expedition altogether.
British contemporaries were stunned by initial reports that a mere 300 French and Indians had defeated a force of more than 1,400 British soldiers…" Main page link Armand
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GamesPoet | 30 Mar 2022 5:16 a.m. PST |
A very brief article. The internet sometimes doesn't produce what magazines sometimes do. |
Tango01 | 30 Mar 2022 3:20 p.m. PST |
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