Today's installment concludes Braddock's Defeat, with two short pieces from George Washington and Captain De Contrecoeur. For works benefiting from

These, making the best of their way off, were joined beyond the other ford by Gage, who had rallied some eighty men; and this was all that remained of

The officers sought to collect their men together and lead them on in platoons. Nothing could avail.Continuing Braddock's Defeat,with a selection

The French -- some of whom, according to Garneau, were mounted -- held the center of the semicircular disposition so instantly assumed; and a

But even now, when the forests are gone and the plough long since passed over the scene, the ravine cannot be at all perceived until one is directly