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His Milton estate remains, but his house is gone, and the very street that he lived on bears the name of Adams, his most persistent enemy. Hutchinson's successor was Thomas Gage, the first governor sent to Boston with an army at his back. He was well known in the colonies, for he had fought well at Braddock's defeat, had married an American wife, and was courteous and affable.
Braddock and Christine were standing with wonder and doubt in their faces. "I guess it's all right for us four to see a little more of each other," he said, but he did not look at his wife. "Jacky, you rascal, you are a gentleman, and as such I introduce you to my family. Let's all be friends." Mrs. Braddock's face went white. She understood the motive of the man.
"Where did all this stuff come from?" went on Dave. "It looks like part of an army outfit." "Thet's jest wot it is, lad." "And it must have belonged to our army." "Right ag'in." "If Pontiac was in command of the Indians at the time of General Braddock's defeat, do you suppose he had some of the red men bring this stuff here?" "That's a question.
"Well, let's have it." "Tom Braddock's out." "Out? I don't understand." Dick's surprise was genuine. "You don't mean to say you never heard what happened to him?" "Joey wrote me that he had gone completely to the dogs in Chicago." "Joey's off his nut. Brad's just out of Sing Sing." "Sing Sing! The penitentiary?" "The sure-enough cooler. He's been there for nearly three years."
Notwithstanding Uncle Braddock's discouraging account of the mule, Jim was engaged as messenger during the time that the creek should be up, and Uncle Braddock was promised a job whenever an important message should come during Jim's absence. The next day it rained, and the creek was up, altogether, for five days. During this time the telegraph company did a good deal of paying business.
When about nineteen years old, Morgan began his military career as a teamster in Braddock's army, and at the time of Braddock's defeat he did good service by bringing wounded men off the battle-field. It was about this time that he became known to Washington, who liked and trusted him. The young man was so dependable and brave that he was steadily promoted.
In his first battle, upon the French surrendering, he wrote to the governor, "if the whole Detach't of the French behave with no more Resolution than this chosen Party did, I flatter myself we shall have no g't trouble in driving them to the d ." At Braddock's defeat, though the regiment he had commanded "behaved like men and died like soldiers," he could hardly find words to express his contempt for the conduct of the British "cowardly regulars," writing of their "dastardly behavior" when they "broke and ran as sheep before hounds," and raging over being "most scandalously" and "shamefully beaten."
Secret Instructions to Major-General Braddock, same date. Napier to Braddock, written by Order of the Duke of Cumberland, 25 Nov. 1754, in Précis des Faits, Pièces justificatives, 168. Orme, Journal of Braddock's Expedition. Instructions to Governor Shirley. Correspondence of Shirley. Johnson Papers. Dinwiddie Papers. In regard to Braddock's part of the campaign, there had been a serious error.
Jimmie Parsons, who was in the room with us all the time, also tried to stop him after he biffed me. Jimmie's got two wonderful black eyes as a result." "The man must be insane!" cried David, aghast. Dick shook his head. "Not a bit of it. He's the sanest man I know." "Where has he gone? You said he started for Mrs. Braddock's? Great heavens, Dick, he may do her bodily harm!
"Redstone Old Fort" the name had reference to the aboriginal earthworks played a part in the Fort Necessity and Braddock campaigns and in later frontier wars; and, being the western terminus of the over-mountain road known at various historic periods as Nemacolin's Path, Braddock's Road, and Cumberland Pike, was for many years the chief point of departure for Virginia expeditions down the Ohio River.
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