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Monongahela 1754-55: ''Washington's defeat, Braddock's disaster''

By Stephen Walsh , René Chartrand

Book information

Publisher
Osprey
Year
2004
ISBN
9781841766836, 1-84176-683-6
Open Library ID
OL8922609M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
22 MB (22872859 bytes)
Series
Campaign 140
Pages
100\100
Topic
History
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

On 9 July 1755 amid the wilderness of North America, Britain suffered one of the most humiliating defeats in her history. General Braddock’s army, a mixture of British regulars and American militia, was shattered, losing over 900 men from a force of 1,300. Braddock was killed and the remnants of his army rescued by his aide, Colonel George Washington. The origins of this defeat can be traced back to the death of a junior French officer little more than a year before in a relatively minor skirmish with a party of Virginian militia commanded by the same George Washington. René Chartrand examines the subsequent chain of events that ultimately sparked a world war.

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