Monthly Archives: February 2019

In the summer of 1755, during the French and Indian war, General Edward Braddock’s army of 2,200 men was sent on a mission to capture Fort Duquesne and thereby gain strategic control of the Ohio country.  A twenty-three-year old colonel, commanding the Virginia militia, accompanied him. On July 9, 1755 Braddock’s army engaged a small force of French soldiers, along with some 600 Ottawa and Potawatomi Indian warriors in what became known as the Battle of Monongahela, about ten miles…..

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Two men among our founding fathers, one a northerner and the other a southerner, met along with three others to compose the Declaration of Independence.  The northerner, whose favorite form of conversation was argument, was short and stocky.  The southerner was tall, elegant, and reserved.  The former was a better speaker than writer.  The latter was a better writer than speaker.  The northerner gave an account of how his southern friend came to write the initial draft. The subcommittee met……

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