[247] Quoted by Parkman. Half a Century of Conflict, vol. i. p. 155.
[248] The narrative, told with admirable vividness and humour, may be found in Parkman, Half a Century of Conflict, vol. ii.
[249] Warren's letter, 4th July 1745.
[250] 900 men were buried out of 2500.
[251] Holderness to Dinwiddie, 18th January 1754. Parkman, vol. i. p. 162.
[252] Holderness to Dinwiddie, 5th July 1754.
[253] Order of 30th September 1754. Record Office, America and W. I., vol. lxxiv.
[254] Horace Walpole's instances of Braddock's rough manners are well known, but the following, I think, is new. An officer had been foisted upon Braddock on his appointment to the command, whom (in order to be rid of him) he placed in command of a small provincial fort at Cape Fear. Governor Dobbs of Carolina having complained of this officer, Braddock replied "that the man had been imposed upon him, that he would not trust him with the building of a hog-sty, and that the best thing Dobbs could do would be to hang him on the first tree he could find." The story is told in a letter of Governor Dobbs to General Amherst of 28th August 1762. Record Office, W. O., Original Correspondence, vol. xiii.
[255] These, while they lasted, ranked as 51st and 52nd of the Line.
[256] Braddock to Robinson, 18th March 1755.