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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 540

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that officer was defeatedand his army put to rout at the MonongahelaRiver, July 9, 1755. The story has often beentold how the over-confident British general, heed-less of all advice, with his two regiments of regu-lars and a few provincials, marched directly intothe ambush laid for them by the… … IN BRADDOCK S FIGHT. dock, vainly trying to keep his men in line, waswounded mortally. The whole duty of giving thegenerals orders had fallen upon Washingtonearly in the engagement, and he rode everywherein the thickest of the fight. Four bullets passedthrough his uniform, and two horses were…

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