bradock's

Updated: May 16, 2025

Chap. Reflections on the Eccentricities of Young Men of Genius with respect to pecuniary matters. The Death of the Artist's Mother. The Embodying of the Pennsylvanian Militia; an Anecdote of General Wayne. The Artist elected Commandant of a corps of Volunteer boys. The circumstances which occasioned the Search for the Bones of Bradock's army. The Search.

John Galt - The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West, Esq.: Composed from Materials Furnished by Himself

After the destruction of General Bradock's army, the Pennsylvanians being alarmed at the defenceless state in which they were placed by that calamity, the Assembly of the Province resolved to embody a militia force; and Mr, Wayne, who has been already mentioned, was appointed Colonel of the Regiment raised in Chester County.

John Galt - The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West, Esq.: Composed from Materials Furnished by Himself

West mentioned to him the finding of the bones of Bradock's army as a pictorial subject capable of being managed with great effect.

John Galt - The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West, Esq.: Composed from Materials Furnished by Himself

This singular notion was not, however, the mere suggestion of fancy, but the effect of an opinion which his early friend and tutor Provost Smith conceived, in consequence of attending the grand meeting of the Indian chiefs, with the Governors of the British colonies, held at East town, in Pennsylvania, in the year following the disastrous fate of Bradock's army.

John Galt - The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West, Esq.: Composed from Materials Furnished by Himself

After the taking of Fort Duane, to which the new name of Pittsburgh was given, in compliment to the minister of the day, General Forbes resolved to search for the relics of Bradock's army.

John Galt - The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West, Esq.: Composed from Materials Furnished by Himself