After suffering a devastating and embarrassing defeat at Fort Necessity, Colonel George Washington returns home to his newly acquired lordship at Mount Vernon, and resigns from the Virginia Militia.
February 1755, Major General Edward Braddock is sent by the British Empire with two regiments of British regular soldiers to the shores of Virginia to launch an attack on Fort Duquesne, and attempt to wrest control of the Ohio Country back from the French.
Major General Braddock requests George Washington to resume his military career as an aide-de-camp, and Washington ever the cunning opportunist obliges. Washington attempts to inform Braddock of the unorthodox “Wilderness style of fighting” that is being implemented with deadly accuracy by the French and Native forces, but Braddock dismisses his concerns.
Braddock, Washington and a force of nearly 1,300 troops, with cattle, wagons, and cannons n tow, head on a taxing journey to the forks of the Ohio with designs on overthrowing the French from Fort Duquesne, then heading north to Niagara, expelling the French at every turn along the way.
Fate, and Canadian Commander Contrecœur had something vastly different in store. Upon the British crossing of the Monongahela, an undersized force of 900 French and Native warriors would deliver the most shockingly violent turn in this young war against.
As troops, officers and their tried and true tactics are mercilessly cut down, chaos and disorder spread through the British ranks with George Washington once again thrust into the spotlight, desperately seeking to salvage what he can of the calamitous affair.
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