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    Road to Nowhere

    Nov 27, 2018 2 minutes

    In 1755, a British force left from Alexandria, Virginia, to attack French Fort Duquesne. Major General Edward Braddock and his troops built the first leg of what is now the National Road. In Braddock’s Defeat: The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution, historian David Preston addresses that project:

    Braddock’s Campaign was unprecedented

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