The death of General Braddock during the disastrous Braddock expedition, aka Braddock's campaign or Braddock's Defeat, a failed British military expedition which tried to capture the French Fort Duquesne in 1755 during the French and Indian War. Major General Edward Braddock, 1695 – 1755. British officer and commander-in-chief for the Thirteen Colonies during the start of the French and Indian War (1754–1763). From Cassell's Illustrated History of England, published

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