When was general braddock born

General Edward Braddock was receiving advice from a young George Washington. Washington was suggesting that he disperse his army and fight behind trees as the Indians did. This was no mere battle they had been lured into. It was an ambush waiting to spring. Everyone was scattering. Braddock tried to encourage his men by example and shouting for them to follow.

At last, his only aide was young Washington, who carried Braddock back to camp after he had been mortally wounded in the chest. Edward Braddock was most famous for his disastrous mistake made during the French Indian War — On 17 February he was appointed colonel of the 14th Regiment of Foot , and in the following year he was promoted major-general. Appointed shortly afterwards to command against the French in America, he landed in Hampton, in the colony of Virginia on 20 February [1] with two regiments of British regulars.

After some months of preparation, in which he was hampered by administrative confusion and want of resources previously promised by the colonials, the Braddock expedition took the field with a picked column, in which George Washington served as a volunteer officer.

The column crossed the Monongahela River on 9 July , and shortly afterwards collided head-on with an Indian and French force who were rushing from Fort Duquesne to oppose the river crossing.

Braddock's troops reacted poorly and became disordered. The British attempted retreat, but ran into the rest of the British soldiers left behind from earlier. Braddock, rallying his men time after time, fell at last, mortally wounded by a shot through the chest. Braddock was borne off the field by Washington [ citation needed ] and Col.

Nicholas Meriwether, [4] and died on 13 July , just four days after the battle. Before he died Braddock left Washington his ceremonial sash that he wore with his battle uniform and muttered some of his last words, which were 'Who would have thought?

He was buried just west of Great Meadows , where the remnants of the column halted on its retreat to reorganize.

Both countries wanted to win control of the lucrative fur trade with the American Indians of North America. Braddock arrived in North America in February In June , Braddock and an army of 1, English soldiers and colonial militiamen, including George Washington, marched to the Ohio Country.

Today it is the site of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The French had completed the outpost a few years earlier and hoped to keep control of the region. By July 9, , Braddock's army had moved to within seven miles of the fort.