FOOTNOTES:
[468:A] Washington's Writings, ii. 456.
[468:B] Ibid., ii. 365, 456; Va. Hist. Register, v. 194; Hist. of Expedition against Fort Du Quesne, edited by Winthrop Sargent, Esq., and published by the Pennsylvania Hist. Society, 51.
CHAPTER LXI.
1754-1755.
Dinwiddie's injudicious Orders—Washington resigns—Statistics—Braddock's arrival—Washington joins him as aid-de-camp—Braddock's Expedition—His Defeat—Washington's Bravery—His account of the Defeat.
The Virginia regiment quartered at Winchester being re-enforced by some companies from Maryland and North Carolina, Dinwiddie injudiciously ordered this force to march at once again over the Alleghanies, and expel the French from Fort Du Quesne, or build another near it. This little army was under command of Colonel Innes, of North Carolina, who, having brought three hundred and fifty men with him from that colony, had been appointed, upon Colonel Fry's death, commander-in-chief. Innes had been with Lawrence Washington at Carthagena. The force under Innes did not exceed half the number of the enemy, and was unprovided for a winter campaign. The assembly making no appropriation for the expedition, it was fortunately abandoned.