Gratuitous French & Indian War Geekery Posting

Today is the anniversary of the Battle of the Monongahela in 1755, in which a British column of about 1500 troops under the command of General Edward Braddock (assisted by, among others, a young Virginia Militia Colonel by the name of George Washington), was ambushed and mauled by a combination of about 600 Indians of various tribes and a smattering of Frenchmen under the command of M. Langlade, M. de Beaujeu and M. Dumas, as it made an attempt to take Fort Duquesne (later Pittsburgh).

The British force, marching as a compact body, stumbled into a great horseshoe-shaped ring of Indians who, firing from behind the trees, threw the Brits into panicked confusion. About two thirds of the British forces were killed or wounded, including Gen. Braddock, who was shot through the lungs. The story goes that when Braddock was buried during the hasty retreat, wagons were driven over the site in order to erase all traces of his grave and prevent the Indians from digging it up and claiming his scalp.

The result of the battle was an unmitigated disaster for the English colonies, as it sparked full-scale attacks on all the western parts of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. I forget where I read it, but I have a vivid recollection of one colonist's account of being able to look all around the western horizon and see columns of smoke rising up from devasted homesteads. I've always found that image to be extremely chilling.

Posted by: Robert at 09:01 AM

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1 The guy next to the horse holding the fallen soldier looks a lot like Abe Lincoln.

Posted by: GroovyVic at July 09, 2008 09:15 AM (DVkb2)

2 Not surprising - the print is French and dates from 1854 and doesn't look as if the artist was much interested in historickal versimilitude. Indeed, the fellah kneeling at front left looks rayther like James Longstreet.

Posted by: Robbo the LB at July 09, 2008 09:55 AM (C31gH)

3 Huh, you're right!

Posted by: GroovyVic at July 09, 2008 11:51 AM (DVkb2)

4 Kinda appropriate that Washington was there. If memory serves me correctly, he played a big part in getting the war started in the first place.

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