Edward braddock biography
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Edward Braddock
Born 1695 Perthshire, Scotland
Died July 13, 1755 Ohio Country (Farmingham, Pennsylvania)
British commander who led the disastrous 1755 Fort Duquesne campaign
British general Edward Braddock played a key role in the early part of the French and Indian War (1754-63; known in Europe as the Seven Years' War). In 1755, he arrived in North America with the full intention of chasing the French and their Indian (Native American) allies out of the disputed Ohio Country, a vast wilderness in the middle of the continent. But his first major military campaign against the French ended in disaster for the overconfident Braddock. His army was decisively defeated by a much smaller force, and the general himself suffered a mortal bullet wound.
Born and raised in a military environment
Edward Braddock was born in 1695, in Perthshire, Scotland. His father, also named Edward Braddock, was a high-ranking officer in the British Army. Little is known of Braddock's early lif
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Edward Braddock (January 1695-9 July 1755) was a general of Great Britain. He was a general of the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War. A secret member of the Knights Templar, he was killed in the Battle of Monongahela in 1755.
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Braddock was from Perthshire in the Province of Scotland, Great Britain. In 1710 he joined the British Army, but also became a member of the Knights Templar. Twenty-five years later, he became acquainted with a Templar named Haytham Kenway, who became a good friend to him, and the two served in the Army during the War of the Austrian Succession. Braddock was made a Lieutenant Colonel in the Coldstream Guards in 1747 and fought in the Siege of Bergen op Zoom. Within two months, the French took the fort, and he killed a young man and his family after refusing them entry to his skiff, hidden in the harbor. Kenway lost respect for him, because he killed anybody who opposed him, and turned into a sadist. He killed civili