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of the ensuing season. At this convention the 

 governors of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, 

 New- York, and Mssachusctts attended ; with 

 colonel Johnson, commissioner of Indian affairs. 

 It ;vas found that Braddock had positive orders, 

 to proceed himself with the greatest expedition, 

 to reduce the French fort Du Quesne, on the 

 Ohio. Nothing more was therefore in his pow- 

 er, than to settle some general arrangements for 

 the campaign with the convention ; and to leave 

 the execution to others, as he was himself very 

 little acquainted with the state of things in A- 

 merica.* 



At this convention it was concluded that four 

 expeditions should be carried on against the 

 French in the course of the summer. One a- 

 gainst fort Du Quesne, under the command of 

 Braddock. Another was to be against Niagara, 

 under the direction of Shirley. A third against 

 Crown Point, under the command of Johnson ; 

 and a fourth against the French forts and settle- 

 ments in the bay of Fundy and Nova Scotia ; 

 to be commanded by colonel Monckton, a Brit- 

 ish officer, but to be executed chiefly by New 

 England troops under the command of colonel 

 Winslow. The plan of operations for the cam- 

 paign being thus adjusted, the convention dis- 

 solved ; and Braddock, Shirley, Johnson and 

 Monckton prepared themselves for the expedi- 

 tions, of which they were to take the immediate 

 command. 



Braddock was a major general in the Brit- 

 ish army ; a man of undoubted courage, and 



* Review of military cperationi in North America, p. lo. S'opposei 

 io be vrote by Mr. Smith of New York. 



