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Braddock's Road and Three Relative Papers

Braddock's Road and Three Relative Papers

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Transcriber’s Note:   Obvious errors in spelling and punctuation have been corrected except for narratives and letters included in this text. Footnotes have been moved to the end of the text body. Also images have been moved from the middle of a paragraph to the closest paragraph break, causing missing page numbers for those image pages and blank pages in this ebook.


HISTORIC HIGHWAYS OF AMERICA

VOLUME 4


Braddock’;s GraveBraddock’s Grave

[The depression on the right is the ancient track of Braddock’s Road; near the single cluster of gnarled apple trees in the meadow beyond, Braddock died and was first buried]


HISTORIC HIGHWAYS OF AMERICA
VOLUME 4

 

Braddock’s Road
AND
THREE RELATIVE PAPERS

 

by
Archer Butler Hulbert

 

With Maps and Illustrations

 

 

THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY
CLEVELAND, OHIO
1903


COPYRIGHT, 1903
BY

The Archer H. Clark Company

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED


CONTENTS

PAGE
      Preface 11
I. Routes of the French and English Westward 15
II. The Virginia Campaign 30
III. From Alexandria to Fort Cumberland 61
IV. A Seaman’s Journal 79
V. The Battle of the Monongahela 108
VI. A Description of the Backwoods 136
VII. Sparks and Atkinson on Braddock’s Route 166
VIII. Braddock’s Road in History 191


ILLUSTRATIONS

I. Braddock’s Grave Frontispiece
II. English and French Routes to the Ohio; 1756 21
III. Plan of Fort Cumberland; February 1755 27
IV. View of Fort Cumberland; 1755 45
V. Map of Braddock’s Road; about 1759 69
VI. Braddock’s Road near Frostburg, Maryland 148
VII. Middleton’s Map of Braddock’s Road; 1847 174
VIII. Braddock’s Road in the Woods near Farmington, Pennsylvania 200


PREFACE

The French were invariably defeated by the British on this continent because the latter overcame natural obstacles which the former blindly trusted as insurmountable. The French made a league

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