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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 4 0 Browse Search
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or wounded; while of the French and Indians, only three officers and thirty men fell, and but as many more were wounded. Braddock had five horses disabled under him; at last a bullet entered his right side, and he fell mortally wounded. Robert Orme to Gov. Morris, 18 July, 1755. He was with difficulty brought off the field, and borne in the train of the fugitives. All the first day he was silent; but at night he roused himself to say, Who would have thought it The meeting at Dunbar's ca, to evacuate Fort Cumberland, and hurry to Philadelphia for winter-quarters. Accordingly, the next day they all retreated. At night Braddock roused from his lethargy to say, We shall better know how to deal with them another time, and died. Orme in Franklin's Autobiography. His grave may still be seen, near the na- chap. VIII.} 1755. tional road, about a mile west of Fort Necessity. The forest field of battle was left thickly strewn with the wounded and the dead. Never had there been