on returned home, mortified
and indignant at the conduct of the regular troops.

FOOTNOTES:

[470:A] Chalmers' Revolt, ii. 353.

[471:A] Chalmers' Revolt, ii. 273.

[473:A] Gordon's Hist. of Pa.; Braddock's Expedition, 163.

[474:A] A plan of the ground is given in Washington's Writings, ii. 90.

[475:A] The surprise of the Roman army under Titurius Sabinus on his
march, by the Gauls (as described by Caesar) resembles Braddock's defeat
in several particulars.

"At hostes, posteaquam ex nocturno fremitu vigiliis que de
profectione eorum senserunt, collocatis insidiis bipartito in
silvis opportuno atque occulto loco, a millibus passuum
circiter duobus, Romanorum adventum expectabant: et cum se
major pars agminis in magnam convallem demisisset, ex utraque
parte ejus vallis subito se ostenderunt, novissimosque premere
et primos prohibere ascensu atque iniquissimo nostris loco
proelium committere coeperunt." Lucius Cotta was the
Washington of that defeat: but he fell in the general
massacre. "At Cotta qui cogitasset haec posse in itinere
accidere, atque ob eam causam profectionis auctor non fuisset,
nulla in re communi saluti deerat, et in appellandis
cohortandisque militibus, imperatoris, et in pugna, militis
officia praestabat."

The following sentence describes the war-whoop: "Tum vero suo more
victoriam conclamant, atque ululatum tollunt, impetuque in nostros
facto, ordines perturbant."

[477:A] Bancroft, iv. 189.

[477:B] Braddock's Expedition, 231.

[480:A] Chalmers' Hist. of Revolt, ii. 276. True to his unvarying
prejudice against the colonies, he justifies the conduct of Braddock.

[480:B] The History of Braddock's Expedition, by Winthrop Sargent, Esq.,
is full, elaborate, and authentic. The volume, a beautiful specimen of
typography, was printed, 1856, by Messrs. J. B. Lippincott & Co., for
the Pennsylvania Historical Society. I am indebted to Townsend Ward,
Esq., Librarian, for a copy of it.

[480:C] Gilbert, a slave, is said to have been with Washington at the
battle of the Monongahela, and at the siege of York. John Alton is
likewise mentioned as a servant attending him during Braddock's
expedition.

CHAPTER LXII.

1755-1756.

Stith--Davies visits England and Scotland--Patriotic Discourse--
Waddel, the Blind Preacher--Washington made Colonel of Virginia
Regiment--Indian Incursions--Washington visits