...sh in America, arrives in the Chesapeake with two British regiments......February, 1755 General Braddock meets Shirley, governor of Massachusetts, De Lancey, of New York, Morris, of Pennsylvania, Sharpe , of Maryland, and Dinwiddie, of Virginia, in a congress at Alexandria, Va.......April 14, 1755 [Object of the meeting was the establishing of a colonial revenue, and the advice to the British gov...