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expert in all the punctilios of a review, having 

 been brought up in the English guards. In his 

 manners he was haughty, positive and difficult 

 of access. Though well acquainted witli the 

 European method of war, he had no idea of the 

 service in a country thinly inhabited and every 

 where abounding with woods, mountains, rivers, 

 morasses, and dangerous defiles. And so at- 

 tached was he to the European customs of re- 

 gular discipline and order, that he despised his 

 provincial and Indian auxiliaries ; and treated 

 with Gontempt the advice of those, who endeav- 

 ored to give him information of the Indian 

 methods of attack ; and to warn him of the dan- 

 ger of ambush, and surprise. On the twentieth 

 of April, he set out with an army of twenty two 

 hundred men, from Alexandria; and after the 

 most extreme difficulties and exertions, arrived 

 on the ninth of July, at the river Monongahala. 

 Having passed the river about noon, he was 

 within seven miles of fort Du Quesne, the object 

 of his hopes and wishes. Marching on in per- 

 fect seeurit}^ and with the most confident ex- 

 pectation of victory and fame, in an instant his 

 army was alarmed with the Indian yell ; and 

 attacked on every side, by a concealed party of 

 French and Indians. Eraddock exerted himself 

 with much courage in the manner of an Euro- 

 pean battle ; but the European discipline, artil- 

 lery, and arms, availed him nothing. He nei- 

 ther knew where his enemy was, or how to op- 

 pose their arts and methods of war : Having 

 exerted himself to the utmost, and to no man- 

 ner of purpose, he himself and the greater part 

 ©f bi« army were slain, by a party of about four 



