. A history of the United States for secondary schools . , THE PERIOD OF STRIFE WITH FRANCE. 145 the English under General Braddock, the French underBaron Dieskau. General Braddock and his regimentswere landed in Virginia, and there, at a conference withseveral of the provincial governors, four simultaneousattacks on the French were planned ; one, to be led byBraddock in person, against the new fort (on the siteof Pittsburg), which had been completed and ^^^^called Fort Duquesne ; a second against Crown ^^^^^, under Colonel William Johnson, Superintendentof Indian Affairsin New York,
. A history of the United States for secondary schools . , THE PERIOD OF STRIFE WITH FRANCE. 145 the English under General Braddock, the French underBaron Dieskau. General Braddock and his regimentswere landed in Virginia, and there, at a conference withseveral of the provincial governors, four simultaneousattacks on the French were planned ; one, to be led byBraddock in person, against the new fort (on the siteof Pittsburg), which had been completed and ^^^^called Fort Duquesne ; a second against Crown ^^^^^, under Colonel William Johnson, Superintendentof Indian Affairsin New York, andpowerful in in-fluence with theSix Nations; athird againstFort Niagara,which GovernorShirley, of Mas-sachusetts, wouldcommand; thefourth in Acadia,to clear theFrench from theforts they heldon the northernside of the Bayof Fundy andChignecto Bay. Some compa-nies of Virginians were added to Braddocks British regiments, and Wash-ington was invited to join his staff. But the British 1 From Miless History of Canada^ reproduced in WinsorsA?nerica, v. MILITARY POSTS IN THE FRONTIER REGIONS OFNORTHEASTERN NEW YORK AND 146 COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT. general, who knew nothing of war with savages in thewilderness, was scornful of information from those whoThe day oi ^^^^^ know, and a terrible disaster was the re-juf/s suit. Attacked in the forest, when near Fort1755. Duquesne, by hidden foes, who fired from be- hind trees, he would not let his men fight in the samebackwoods fashion, but compelled them to stand inline, exposed to the fire of the hidden enemy, until theybroke and fled in wild disorder, leaving their woundedto be tomahawked and scalped. Out of a total of about2200 in Braddocks command, nearly 800 are believedto have been lost. Braddock himself was mortallywounded and died during the retreat. His second incommand abandoned the whole frontier, leaving it atthe mercy of the savages, who swarmed against it formonths, at the instigation of the French. Gove
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