USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -General Edward Braddock was receiving advice from a young George Washington. Washington was suggesting that he disperse his army and fight behind trees as the Indians did. General Braddock was slow to do as the younger officer advised, and he would pay dearly.

Detailed explanation-2: -Necessity in 1754 prompted a more substantial military response by Britain. Braddock was expected to eject the French forces building Fort Duquesne in the Ohio Valley. To accomplish his mission, Braddock had been given extraordinary powers as commander of British forces in North America.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Braddock expedition, also called Braddock’s campaign or (more commonly) Braddock’s Defeat, a failed British military expedition, attempted to capture the French Fort Duquesne (established in 1754, located in what is now downtown Pittsburgh) in the summer of 1755, during the French and Indian War of 1754 to 1763.

Detailed explanation-4: -Washington became a volunteer aide-de-camp in General Braddock’s military “family.” But Braddock and Washington ultimately personified the larger relationship between the British Empire and the British colonies in America-one already beset by political tension and discord in 1755.