Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. The Causes of the French and Indian War and the Origins of the `Braddock Plan’: Rival Colonies and their Claims to the Disputed Ohio.- 3. Metropolitan Intervention: Britain’s Strategy for a New Colonial War.- 4. `Stupid Brutes Led by an Eighteenth-Century Colonel Blimp?’: The British Army of the Eighteenth Century.- 5. Edward Braddock in America: Provincial Politics, Indian Alliances and the Prolonged and Arduous March to the Monongahela.- 6. The Battle of the Monongahela.- 7. Other Theatres: The Niagara, St. Frederic and Nova Scotia Expeditions.- 8. Remembering Braddock’s Defeat.

About the Author

Richard Hall is Lecturer at Swansea University, UK. His research interests include the French and Indian War, the campaigns associated with this pivotal conflict, and the clash of military cultures in North America during the colonial period.