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Braddock's Road and Three Relative Papers
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 Grave](@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@41152@41152-h@images@illo_004.jpg)
[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
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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