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his instructions, 394; sails for,
and arrives in America, 138, 139;
council with Indians, 375, 377;
intercourse with Washington, 155,
157, 158; incensed at Pennsylva-
nia, 147, 152; his coach, 194;
his success doubted by Franklin,
199; his route, 193, 198, 212;
designs after capture of Du Quesne,
302; offers reward for scalps,
172; passes Monongahela, 216,
217; il condition of his army,
210; meets the enemy, 226; re-
fuses cover to his men, 230; re-
treats and is shot, 232; destroys
stores, 238; story of his assassi-
nation, 244; his last passages,
236; dies, 237; his burial and
grave, 261, 277; his disinterment,
261; his sash, 278; defeat un-
looked for, 262; first news of it,
260; burial of his dead, 275;
the battle-field, 278; his strategic
errors, 254; verses on him, 414.
Braddock, Miss Fanny, 117, 401.
Bromley, Capt., 377.
Brown, Billy, 250.
Buchanan, Lieut. Sir F. J., 364.
Burton, Col. Ralph, 211.
Butler, William, 247.

Camps, 331, 333, 335, 338, 340, | Duquesne, M. de, 29, 33, 35, 192.

341, 343, 344, 345, 346, 349,
350, 352.

Canada, its resources, 37.
Cantonment of Army, 286.
Captives at Braddock's defeat, 258.
Centurion, 139.

Cholmondeley, Capt., 247.
Cocke, Thomas, 329.

Du Quesne, Fort; founded, 42; con-
dition of, 181; English projects
against, 268; to be garrisoned by
colonists, 302; abandoned, 221;
reduction of, 274.

Edmestone, Lieut. William, 362.
Encroachments in America, 22.

Coldstream Guards, 122; prices of Ettwein, Rev. John, 97.

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Expedition to Virginia determined
on, 103; parliamentary supplies,
111, 133; organization, 129, 134,
145; Braddock takes command,
137; delayed by storms, 138;
sails from Cork, 140; list of
ships, 141; arrives in Virginia,
141; why sent thither, 161; can-
tonments, 286; anticipated suc-
cess, 142; failure of supplies,
162, 169; route, 193, 198; its
character, 323; consequences of
defeat, 239; English loss, 239;
reception in Philadelphia, 266.

Falconer, Lieut. Thomas, 361.
Farrel, Thomas, 243.

Fausett, Joseph, 247.

Fausett, Thomas, said to have killed

Braddock, 244.

Forbes, Brig. John, reduces Fort

Du Quesne, 270.

Fort Du Quesne, founded, 42; suf-

fers for supplies, 57.

Fort Necessity, capture of, 51, 57;
Indian account of, 54; English
comments, 58; Virginia feeling,
60.

Fort Pitt, 274.

Franklin; his services to Braddock,
163; his claims audited, 308;
prognosticates ill-success, 199,

262.

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Il condition of Braddock's army, Monongahela, passage of, 216, 217;

210.

battle of, 227; English loss at,

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Montresor, Lieut. John, 362.
Morgan, Daniel, 240.
Morris, Lewis, 289.

Morris, Capt. Roger, 211, 369.
Morris, Robert Hunter, 289

Narrows, the, 212.

rell's, 290, 324, 325; 44th and

48th, 291.

Return of loss at defeat, 238.

Ross, Capt. Robert, 362.

Rush Creek, 213.

Necessity, Fort, 51; its cannon, 52. Scarroyaddy, 103, 173; his son

Newcastle, Duke of, 103.

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Sailors in the

army,

195.

killed, 210.

Schuyler, Col. Peter, 325.

Seven Years' War, causes of, 18.

Ohio company, 24, 25.

Sewickly Creek, 211.

Sharpe, Gov. Horatio, 107.

Ohio Territory, occupation of, 35; Shippen MSS., 159.

its cost to the French, 269.

Onongaruiete, his letter, 32.
Orde, Capt. Thomas, 364.

Orme, Robert, 211, 284; letter to
Washington, 155.

Penington, Ensign George, 361.
Pennsylvania, its population in 1755,
61; character of people, 63, 76;
their intercourse with Indians, 65;
Scotch-Irish settlers, 77; Quakers,
76; Germans, 61, 77, 80; fron-
tier settlers, 83; superstitions,
78; Indian antipathy, 91, 93;
disputed boundary, 24; domestic
troubles, 148; conduct in 1755,
146; disappoints the crown, 145;
builds a road, 160; presents to
army, 177, 178, 379.

Shirley, Gov. W., 305; his opinion

on American boundaries, 34.

Shirley, W., junior, diffident of suc-
cess, 214.

Smith, James, 258.
Society Hill, 266.
South Carolina contingent, 325.
Sparks, Jared, 212.

Spendelowe, Lieut., 324; camp, 331.
Spies, 180, 193.

Spiltdorph, Ensign C. G. de, 363.
St. Clair, Sir John, 285; sent to

America, 136, 144; occupation
there, 144; incensed at Pennsyl-
vania, 159; proposes a canton-
ment, 286; his propositions, 210,
216, 352.

Stephen, Capt. Adam, 45, 329.
Stewart, Hon. A., 246.

Peyronie, Chevalier William de, 328. Stewart, Capt. Robert, 363.

Pitt, Fort, 274.

Polson, Capt. W., 327.

Pouchot, M., 38.

Stewart, Ensign Walter, 363.
Stobo, Robert, 50, 52, 182.

Provincials, to have formed a royal Syren, 290.

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Stores destroyed, 235.

Tadeuskund, 97.

Thicketty Run, 349.

Regiments, Shirley's and Peppe- Thomas, M., 46.

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