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19th-century engraving of General Braddock's burial near Great Meadows, Pennsylvania. Braddock was buried just west of Great Meadows, where the remnants of the column halted on its retreat to reorganize. [1] He was buried in the middle of the road that his men had just cut through and wagons were rolled over top of the grave site to prevent his ...
Braddock Road trace near Fort Necessity, Pennsylvania. The Braddock Road was a military road built in 1755 in what was then British America and is now the United States . It was the first improved road to cross the barrier of the successive ridgelines of the Appalachian Mountains .
Braddock died on July 13, 1755, and was buried in an elaborate ceremony officiated by George Washington. He was buried under the road in order to hide the location of his grave from the enemy French and Indians. [5] In 1804 Braddock's remains were discovered by men making repairs to the wilderness road. [citation needed] A marker was erected in ...
19th-century engraving of the wounding of Major-General Braddock at the Battle of the Monongahela. By July 8, 1755, the Braddock force was on the land owned by the Chief Scout, Lieutenant John Fraser. That evening, the Native Americans sent delegates to the British to request a conference. Braddock chose Washington and Fraser as his emissaries.
Both Braddock and Beaujeu were killed in action during the battle. Braddock was mortally wounded in the fight and died during the retreat near present-day Uniontown, Pennsylvania. He specifically asked for George Washington, who accompanied him on the march, to oversee his burial. The remainder of the British column retreated south-eastwards.
The fort was located near a Native American village known as Sugar Cabins, [11] at the eastern end of the Forbes Road and close to a well-traveled Native American trail leading from central Pennsylvania to the Ohio Country, with the intent that the fort would serve to monitor the passing of Indians engaged in trading as well as any war parties. [7]
Major General Edward Braddock was chosen to lead the expedition. [45] He was defeated at the Battle of the Monongahela, and the French remained in control of Fort Duquesne until 1758, when an expedition under General John Forbes finally succeeded in taking the fort. [46] A 1912 map showing the route of the Braddock expedition
Braddock's Battlefield History Center is a small American museum and visitors center on the site of the Battle of the Monongahela of July 9, 1755. It features a collection of art, documents, and artifacts about the Braddock Expedition and the French and Indian War as it unfolded at the Forks of the Ohio .