Potomac landings . ppearance in that year of Com-modore Keppels fleet bearing Major-General EdwardBraddock, Generalissimo of Forces in America,and his army. The French had been threatening theVirginian frontier on the Ohio. Colonel Washingtonhad left Mount Vernon in November, 1753, under thedirection of Governor Dinwiddie to carry the royalprotest to the encroaching French. It came to nothingand the following year young Washington had headeda military expedition of colonial volunteers which alsofell short of the desired success. Though Virginiathanked Washington, England was alarmed and
Potomac landings . ppearance in that year of Com-modore Keppels fleet bearing Major-General EdwardBraddock, Generalissimo of Forces in America,and his army. The French had been threatening theVirginian frontier on the Ohio. Colonel Washingtonhad left Mount Vernon in November, 1753, under thedirection of Governor Dinwiddie to carry the royalprotest to the encroaching French. It came to nothingand the following year young Washington had headeda military expedition of colonial volunteers which alsofell short of the desired success. Though Virginiathanked Washington, England was alarmed and sentan army of British regulars under Braddock to wipeout the French. Toward the end of March in that year of 1755 theplanters opened their eyes to the sight of a fleet ofEnglish warships and transports sailing the length oftidewater to anchor off Alexandria. They broughtBraddock and his army from England. CommodoreKeppels pennant flew from the Norwich, and amongother ships known to have come up the river with him. s: S^ a :r. ~ 7, ^ — -I K O tn S — - — i. H ^ *- o POTOMAC LANDINGS 325 were the Sea Horse, the Nightingale, and the EngUsh forces numbered about 1,300. Wlien they disembarked at Alexandria, they unitedwith additional colonial volunteers. The little cityat once found itself the centre of a huge military en-campment, gay with the scarlet tunics of the Britishsoldiers, jolly tars hitting the beach for such frivolityas the town turned up, flying ensigns, prancing horses,rumbling cannon, and commissary wagons, and all thepomp and panoply of an army preparing to set off fora campaign. The Commander-in-Chief made his head-quarters in Colonel Carlyles house. Here he metyoung Washington, then in his twenty-third year, andinvited him to join his staff. Here he assembled fiveof the Royal Colonial Governors in council to considerways and means for conducting his campaign. Mixedwith the councils, the drills, the parades, and otherpreparations for the great mar
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