Major General Edward Braddock (1694-1755) A veteran of the
Coldstream Guards and former governor of Gibraltar, Major General
Edward Braddock was given command of a small expeditionary force
sent to North America to remove the French from the continent. His
immediate goal-to dislodge them from Ohio River Valley. His force,
consisting of the veterans of two regular regiments of foot plus
numerous colonial units, was met on the path seven miles from Fort
Duquesne by a small French and Indian army and was soundly
defeated. Braddock, severely wounded, died a few days later. George
Washington (1732-1799) Faced with the prospect of being demoted to
captain, George Washington had resigned his commission in the
Virginia forces in October, 1754 and focused his attention on
organizing his new estate at Mount Vernon. On March 2, 1755, he
received a letter from Braddock's loyal aide-de-camp, Captain
Robert Orme inviting him to join the general's "Family" as an aide.
Washington jumped at this second chance to pursue his goal of a
military career. The young aide, eager to learn, kept his own
personal copy of Braddock's daily orders to the army, known as his
"Orderly Book." Braddock's Orderly Books Washington's copies of
General Braddock's Orderly Books were originally published in 1878
as an appendix to William H. Lowdermilk's History of Cumberland
(Maryland). Lowdermilk's edition, however, contained numerous
errors, with entire pages of the manuscript inserted in the wrong
location. The originals, along with most of George Washington's
papers, are held by the Library of Congress and have now been made
readily available for viewing on the American Memory pages of their
website. This edition reprintsLowdermilk's original. However, a
close comparison has been made to the originals and the appropriate
corrections have now been made. Selected Correspondence of George
Washington Part II of this work contains the correspondence of
George Washington related to the Ohio Expedition of 1755. Included
are his accounts of the Battle of Monongahela sent to Lieutenant
Governor Robert Dinwiddie, his mother Mary Ball Washington, and his
younger brother John Augustine Washington. Washington's letter book
of this time contains memorandums that he inserted later. This
edition publishes those memorandums as Washington originally wrote
them. Appendices The British casualty list from the Battle of
Monongahela as originally published in Lowdermilk. In addition, as
with all Normal Warfare Publications, this work contains an
extensive appendix with biographical information on all the major
participants mentioned within the work.
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