"Braddock's Defeat establishes ... the battle's profoundly pivotal nature for Indian, French Canadian, and British peoples in the eighteenth century. The disaster altered the balance of power in America and escalated the fighting into a global conflict known as the Seven Years' War. Those who were there, including George Washington, Thomas Gage, Horatio Gates, Charles Lee, and Daniel Morgan, never forgot its lessons and brought them to bear when they fought again - whether as enemies or allies - two decades hence. The campaign had awakened many British Americans to their provincial status in the empire, spawning ideas of American identity and anticipating the social and political divisions that would erupt in the American Revolution."--Jacket.

Includes maps of: Struggle for the Ohio Valley, 1753-1754; Royal Navy in Braddock's Expedition; Braddock's March through Maryland and Virginia to Fort Cumberland; Captain Beaujeu's Voyage; Braddock's Road - Fort Cumberland to the Monongahela; Braddock's Projected Advance on Fort Duquesne; Battle of the Monongahela - Beaujeu's Attack; Battle of the Monongahela - British Collapse; Battle of the Monongahela - Final Indian Attack; After the Monongahela - Major Campaigns of the French and Indian War.

Introduction: remembering Braddock's Defeat -- Paths to the Monongahela -- Braddock Americanus -- Confrontations -- Beaujeu's voyage -- Braddock's march -- The Battle of the Monongahela -- Consequences -- Epilogue: legacies of the Monongahela.