General Braddock is mortally wounded as George Washington looks on.
On July 9, 1755, after a six-week journey of 110 miles, Commander in Chief of the British Army Gen. Edward Braddock was mortally wounded and his men suffered almost 800 casualties, including 600 dead and 90 percent of the officers killed or wounded in a clash with French Canadian and Indian troops dispatched from Fort Duquesne. Braddock's Defeat at the Battle of the Monongahela is the second largest Indian victory in terms of opponents killed, in American history.
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