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A general's defeat: Anniversary will be observed in North Braddock

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‘The Wounding of Gen. Braddock’ at the Battle of the Monongahela in present-day North Braddock on July 9, 1755, as painted by Robert Griffing. The commemorative painting is an interpretation of all the eyewitness accounts of the wounding of Braddock, leaning at the base of the tree in the center of Griffing’s painting. George Washington, who served as an aide-de-camp for Braddock, is seen kneeling at his side. Braddock died three days later during the retreat of the British and colonial army.

At the eastern edge of Westmoreland County’s Route 30 corridor lies one of the state’s best example of a colonial fort — Fort Ligonier, the site of the October 1758 battle where British and Colonial forces repulsed an attack by French and Native Americans.


Source: The Tribune-Review

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