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    Conestoga Wagons in Braddock's Campaign, 1755
    Conestoga Wagons in Braddock's Campaign, 1755
    Conestoga Wagons in Braddock's Campaign, 1755
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    Conestoga Wagons in Braddock's Campaign, 1755

    By Donald H. Berkebile

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Conestoga Wagons in Braddock's Campaign, 1755 - Donald H. Berkebile

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      Title: Conestoga Wagons in Braddock's Campaign, 1755

      Author: Don H. Berkebile

      Release Date: August 10, 2009 [EBook #29653]

      Language: English

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      Don H. Berkebile

      CONESTOGA WAGONS

      IN BRADDOCK'S CAMPAIGN, 1755

      More than 200 years have passed since the Pennsylvania farm wagon, the ancestral form of the Conestoga wagon, first won attention through military service in the French and Indian War. These early wagons, while not generally so well known, were the forerunners of the more popular Conestoga freighter of the post-Revolutionary period and also of the swaying, jolting prairie schooners that more recently carried hopeful immigrants to the western territories.

      The Author: Don H. Berkebile is on the exhibits staff of the Smithsonian Institution's United States National Museum.

      In a speech to the Pennsylvania Assembly on December 19, 1754, Governor Morris suggested a law that would settle and establish the wages to be paid for the use of the wagons and horses which soon were to be pressed into military service for the expedition against Fort DuQuesne.[1] His subsequent remarks on the subject were all too indicative of the difficulties which were later to arise. The Assembly however, neglected to pass such an act, and the Maryland and Virginia Assemblies were equally lax in making provision for General Braddock's transportation.

      Sir John St. Clair had told Braddock, shortly after his arrival in the colonies in late February 1755, of a great number of Dutch settlers, at the foot of a mountain called the Blue Ridge, who would undertake to carry by the hundred the provisions and stores....[2] St. Clair was confident he could have 200 wagons and 1,500 pack horses at Fort Cumberland by early May. On April 21 Braddock reached Frederick, in Maryland. There he found that only 25 wagons had come in and several of these were unserviceable. Furiously the General swore that the expedition was at an end. At this point, Benjamin Franklin, who was in Frederick to placate the wrath of Braddock and St. Clair against the Pennsylvanians, commented

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