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.
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
Forbes, Brig. John, reduces Fort
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.
Franklin; his services to Braddock, 163; his claims audited, 308; prognosticates ill-success, 199,
Il condition of Braddock's army, Monongahela, passage of, 216, 217;
battle of, 227; English loss at,
Montresor, Lieut. John, 362. Morgan, Daniel, 240. Morris, Lewis, 289.
Morris, Capt. Roger, 211, 369. Morris, Robert Hunter, 289
rell's, 290, 324, 325; 44th and
Return of loss at defeat, 238.
Ross, Capt. Robert, 362.
Rush Creek, 213.
Necessity, Fort, 51; its cannon, 52. Scarroyaddy, 103, 173; his son
Schuyler, Col. Peter, 325.
Seven Years' War, causes of, 18.
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.
Stewart, Ensign Walter, 363. Stobo, Robert, 50, 52, 182.
Provincials, to have formed a royal Syren, 290.
Regiments, Shirley's and Peppe- Thomas, M., 46.
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