Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
March 1818
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 92
Notes:
A cob dollar was a Spanish dollar, or piece of eight.
Gen. Edward Braddock (1695-1755), with George Washington as his aide-de-camp, led his British and American troops in a failed military expedition that attempted to capture the French Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh) in the summer of 1755 during the Seven Years' War. In an engagement on 9 July the French and their Native American allies dealt the British a severe loss, and Braddock was killed.
