CONTENTS

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Preface[11]
I.Routes of the French and English Westward[15]
II.The Virginia Campaign[30]
III.From Alexandria to Fort Cumberland[61]
IV.A Seaman’s Journal[79]
V.The Battle of the Monongahela[108]
VI.A Description of the Backwoods[136]
VII.Sparks and Atkinson on Braddock’s Route[166]
VIII.Braddock’s Road in History[191]

ILLUSTRATIONS

I.Braddock’s Grave[Frontispiece]
II.English and French Routes to the Ohio; 1756[21]
III.Plan of Fort Cumberland; February 1755[27]
IV.View of Fort Cumberland; 1755[45]
V.Map of Braddock’s Road; about 1759[69]
VI.Braddock’s Road near Frostburg, Maryland[148]
VII.Middleton’s Map of Braddock’s Road; 1847[174]
VIII.Braddock’s Road in the Woods near Farmington, Pennsylvania[200]