Identifier: ourgreatercountr00nort ( find matches)
Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 ( 1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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hrubs, im-mediately below the eminence held by theFrench. The regulars were quickly thrown intoconfusion by the heavy fire and the fierceyells of the Indians, who could nowhere b« 894 THE FRENCFI AND INDIAN WAR. seen, and their losses were so severe andsudden that they became panic-stricken.They were ordered to charge up the hill anddrive the French from their cover, but re-fused to move, and in their terror fired atrandom into the woods. In the meantimethe Indians were rapidly spreading along thesides of the ravine and continuing their firefrom their cover among the trees with fear-ful accuracy. that not one of his commands was obeyed,and his defeat was complete. The only semblance of resistance main-tained by the English was by the VirginiaRangers, whom Braddock had insulted atthe beginning of the days march. Immedi-ately upon the commencement of the battlethey had adopted the tactics of the Indian.,and had thrown themselves behind trees,from which shelter they were rapidly picking
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DISASTROUS DEFEAT OF GENERAL BRADDOCK. The advance of the English was drivenback, and it crowded upon the second divi-sion in utter disorder. A reinforcement ofeight hundred men, under Colonel Burton,arrived at this moment, but only to add tothe confusion. The French pushed theirlines forward now and increased the disorderof the English, who had by this time lostnearly all their officers. Braddock now cameup and gallantly exerted himself to restoreorder, but the kings regulars and discip-lined troops were so utterly demoralized off the Indians. Washington entreatedBraddock to allow the regulars to follow theexample of the Virginians, but he refused,and stubbornly endeavored to form them inplatoons under the fatal fire that was being^,poured upon them by their hidden assailants.:Thus through his obstinacy many usefullives were needlessly thrown away before hewould admit his defeat. ; The officers did not share the panic of themen, but behaved with the greatest gallantry.They were the e

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