Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
February 17, 1795
Primary Source Reference:
Gazette of the United States (Philadelphia), 17 Feb 1795
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Notes:
Gen. Edward Braddock (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.
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