Braddock's Road and Three Relative Papers

The clearest insight into the days when Braddock's Road was built, and the most vivid pictures of the country through which it wound its course, are given in certain letters of...

The narrow swath of a road cut through the darkling Alleghenies by General Braddock has been worth all it cost in time and treasure. Throughout the latter half of the eighteenth...

Governor Dinwiddie's zeal had increased in inverse ratio to the success of Virginian arms. After Washington's repulse at Fort Necessity he redoubled his energies, incited by a l...

Sir Peter Halket moved out from Fort Cumberland on June 7 with a brigade comprising the 44th Regiment, two Independent Companies of New York, two companies of Virginia Rangers,...

One of the most interesting documents relative to Braddock's expedition is a _Journal_ kept by one of the thirty seamen sent with Braddock by Commodore Keppel. The original manu...

Several months ago we received from that indefatigable delver in the early annals of our country, Jared Sparks, Esq., of Salem, Massachusetts, a letter containing some valuable...

What it was that proved to be "extraordinary in the way of the Service" General Braddock soon discovered, and it is a fair question whether, despite all that has been written co...

If Providence had reversed the decree which allowed Frenchmen to settle the St. Lawrence and Englishmen the middle Atlantic seaboard, and, instead, had brought Englishmen to Que...

PAGE PREFACE 11 I. ROUTES OF THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH WESTWARD 15 II. THE VIRGINIA CAMPAIGN 30 III. FROM ALEXANDRIA TO FORT CUMBERLAND 61 IV. A SEAMAN'S JOURNAL 79 V. THE BATTLE O...