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Va.......April 14, 1755 [Object of the meeting was the establishing of a colonial revenue, and the advice to the British government, in which all concurred, was taxation by act of Parliament.] Assembly appropriates £ 30,000 for carrying on the war......April, 1755 General Braddock is twenty-seven days on the march from Alexandria to Fort Cumberland, and arrives with 2,150 men......May 10, 1755 Braddock advances from Fort Cumberland for Fort Duquesne, distance, 130 miles......June 10, 1755 Braddock leaves Colonel Dunbar to bring up the heavy baggage, and pushes on with 1,200 chosen men......June 19, 1755 Battle of Monongahela; Braddock defeated......July 9, 1755 Colonel Dunbar burns public stores and heavy baggage worth £ 100,000, destroys the remaining artillery, and retreats......July 13, 1755 [Fort Cumberland is evacuated, leaving the frontier of Pennsylvania without a post of defence.] Assembly levy a tax of £ 55,000, from which the proprietary estates a