. Indian history for young folks . to Frontenac. Duquesne can hardly detain meabove three or four clays, and then I see nothing that can obstruct mymarch to Niagara.: With such blind confidence and fatal prejudice didBraddock delude himself throughout this eventful expedition. Braddocks forces numbered about two thousand, one-half of whomwere provincials. Two companies of these from New York were under Captain Horatio Gates, after-wards the conqueror of Bur-goyne at Saratoga. Here alsowas the gallant Hugh Mercer,who afterwards fell gloriouslyat Princeton, and one of thewagons was owned and dri
. Indian history for young folks . to Frontenac. Duquesne can hardly detain meabove three or four clays, and then I see nothing that can obstruct mymarch to Niagara.: With such blind confidence and fatal prejudice didBraddock delude himself throughout this eventful expedition. Braddocks forces numbered about two thousand, one-half of whomwere provincials. Two companies of these from New York were under Captain Horatio Gates, after-wards the conqueror of Bur-goyne at Saratoga. Here alsowas the gallant Hugh Mercer,who afterwards fell gloriouslyat Princeton, and one of thewagons was owned and drivenby Daniel Morgan, the famousleader of the rifle regiment dur-ing the Revolutionary War, andthe victor at the Cowpens. Hewing their way throughthe wilderness with great diffi-culty, the advanced division ofone thousand two hundred menwere within sevenmiles of Fort Du-quesne at noon on the 9th ofJuly. Washington, who was serving as an aide-de-camp to Braddock,often afterwards said, that the finest spectacle he had ever beheld was. HUliATIO GATES. THE OLD FRENCH WAR (1755-1760). 213
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