Monongahela, Battle of the

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Monongahela, Battle of the a confrontation between British troops and a French force together with Indians and Canadian irregulars on July 9, 1755, during the French and Indian War (1754–63). British Maj. Gen. Edward Braddock led 1,450 men toward the Monongahela River in western Pennsylvania to repel French “encroachments.” Unprepared for an attack by 783 French, Indians, and Canadians, the British suffered 977 casualties, including Braddock, who died four days after the battle. The phrase “Braddock's Defeat” came to be used to refer to the superiority of frontiersmen over European regulars.

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