Table Of ContentBraddock’s Defeat
Pivotal Moments in American History
series editors
David Hackett Fischer
James M. McPherson
David Greenberg
James T. Patterson Howard Jones
Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights The Bay of Pigs
Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy
Lynn Parsons
Maury Klein The Birth of Modern Politics: Andrew Jackson,
Rainbow’s End: The Crash of 1929 John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828
James McPherson Elliott West
Crossroads of Freedom: The Battle of Antietam The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story
Glenn C. Altschuler Glenn C. Altschuler & Stuart M. Blumin
All Shook Up: How Rock ’n’ Roll Changed The GI Bill: A New Deal for Veterans
America
Richard Archer
David Hackett Fischer As If an Enemy’s Country: The British
Washington’s Crossing Occupation of Boston and the Origins of
Revolution
John Ferling
Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election Thomas Kessner
of 1800 The Flight of the Century: Charles Lindbergh
and the Rise of American Aviation
Joel H. Silbey
Storm over Texas: The Annexation Controversy Craig L. Symonds
and the Road to Civil War The Battle of Midway
Raymond Arsenault Richard Moe
Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Roosevelt’s Second Act: The Election of 1940 and
Racial Justice the Politics of War
Colin G. Calloway Emerson W. Baker
The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the
Transformation of North America American Experience
Richard Labunski Louis P. Masur
James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Lincoln’s Last Speech: Wartime Reconstruction
Rights and the Crisis of Reunion
Sally G. McMillen
Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s
Rights Movement
Braddock’s Defeat
THE BATTLE OF THE MONONGAHELA
AND THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION
David L. Preston
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Preston, David L. (David Lee), 1972-
Braddock’s Defeat : the Battle of the Monongahela and the
road to revolution / David L. Preston.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-19-984532-3
1. Monongahela, Battle of the, Pa., 1755. 2. Braddock’s Campaign, 1775.
3. United States—History—Revolution, 1775–1783--Causes. I. Title.
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CONTENTS
List of Maps ix
List of Illustrations xi
Editor’s Note xv
introduction: Remembering Braddock’s Defeat 1
chapter 1: Paths to the Monongahela 11
chapter 2: Braddock Americanus 43
chapter 3: Confrontations 73
chapter 4: Beaujeu’s Voyage 127
chapter 5: Braddock’s March 165
chapter 6: The Battle of the Monongahela 217
chapter 7: Consequences 269
epilogue: Legacies of the Monongahela 323
Acknowledgments 333
appendices
appendix a: Order of Battle, Braddock’s Defeat, July 9, 1755 337
appendix b: British Officers at Braddock’s Defeat 341
appendix c: French Officers and Cadets at the Battle of the
Monongahela 345
appendix d: Casualties at Braddock’s Defeat 347
appendix e: An Ohio Iroquois Warrior’s Account of the Jumonville
Affair, 1754 351
appendix f: French Account of Beaujeu at the Monongahela 355
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appendix g: Midshipman Thomas Gill, Royal Navy: Author of the
“Seaman’s Journal” 357
appendix h: Historic Sites Relating to Braddock’s Expedition 359
Abbreviations 361
Notes 363
Bibliography 423
Index 435
MAPS
1. The Struggle for the Ohio Valley, 1753–1754 13
2. The Royal Navy in Braddock’s Expedition 66
3. Braddock’s March through Maryland and Virginia to
Fort Cumberland 88
4. Captain Beaujeu’s Voyage 133
5. Braddock’s Road: Fort Cumberland to the Monongahela 167
6. Braddock’s Projected Advance on Fort Duquesne 227
7. Battle of the Monongahela: Beaujeu’s Attack 236
8. Battle of the Monongahela: The British Collapse 242
9. Battle of the Monongahela: The Final Indian Attack 258
10. After the Monongahela: Major Campaigns of the French and
Indian War 296
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