hardbodied

Updated: July 31, 2026

>From the midst of the debacle of Braddock's defeat rises the figure of the young Washington. Twenty-three he was then, tall and spare and hardbodied from a life spent largely in the open. When Braddock fell, this Washington appeared. Reckless of the enemy's bullets, which spanged about him and pierced his clothes, he dashed up and down the lines in an effort to rally the panic-stricken redcoats.

Constance Lindsay Skinner - Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground