In 1755 General Edward Braddock’s army hacked a road through the Alleghenies toward the French at Fort Duquesne, with the young George Washington among his officers. Archer Butler Hulbert follows the route from Alexandria to Fort Cumberland and on to the Battle of the Monongahela, using journals including a seaman’s, and describes the backwoods the road opened.
A close study of one of colonial America’s most fateful roads, later part of the National Road. Download the free EPUB.