Indians, French & War

George Washington pushed men to keep up the fight while Indians fired down the hill from both sides. As the colonel climbed on another horse he forced men into the action; more men became casualties. Soon British soldiers, militia and frontiersmen moved out of the smoky forest and to the river. Indians followed to the edge scalping dead and wounded, men and women. An unbelievable disaster just happened and the ensuing panic was everywhere; individuals dropped weapons and headed toward Cumberland. This action would be know as the Battle of the Monongahela and among the colonists as Braddock's Defeat. A spark of war in the Pennsylvania wilderness would lead to a world-wide conflict, known in America as the French and Indian War.