The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-04-05

pen there where they covered close
in the scarlet ranks.
Their first blazing volley had sent
the craven Canadians scampering back
the way they had come; Beaujeu, who
led the attack, was killed almost at
the nrst onset; but the gallant young.
sters who led the motley array wap
ered never an instant, and readily
held the Indians to their easy work..
Washington did all that furious
energy and reckless courage could to
keep the order of battle his com
mander had SO madly chosen, to hold
the regulars to their blind work and
hearten the Virginians to stay the
threatened rout, driving his horse
everywhere into the thick Of the muir.
derous firing, and crying upon all
alike to keep to 1t steadily like men.
He had but yesterday rejoined the
advance, having for almost two weeks
lain stricken with fever in Dunbar's
camp ~
A Charmed Life.
He could hardly sit his cushioned
saddle for weakness when the fight
began; but when the blaze of the bat
tie burst, his eagerness was suddenly
like that OF one possessed, and his Inn
'munfty from harm like that Of one
charmed: Thrice 4 horse was shot
under him, many bullets cut his cloth
Ing, but he went without wound. A
like mad energy drove Braddock
storming up and down the breaking
lines, but he was MORALLY stricken at
last, and Washington alone remained
to exercise such control as was pos
sible when the inevitable rout came.
It was impossible to hold the ground
In such fashion. The stubborn Brad
dock himself had ordered a retreat ere
the fatal bullet found him. Sixty
three out Of the eighty-six officers Of
his force were killed or disabled; less
than i've hundred men out of all the
thirteen hundred who had but Just
now. passed 30 gallantly through the
ford remained unhurt; the deadly
slaughter must have gone on to utter
destruction.
Death Of Braddock.
Retreat was inevitable twas
blessed good fortune that it was still
possible. When once it began it was
headlong, reckless, frenzied. The men
ran wildly, blindly, as if hunted by
demons whom no man might hope to
resist-haunted by the frightful cries,
maddened by the searching and secret
fire of their foes, now coming hot
upon their heels. Wounded comrades,
military stores, baggage, their very
arms, they left upon the ground,
abandoned. Far into the night they
ran madly on, in frantic search for the
camp of the rear division, crying, an
they ran, for help; they even passed
the camp, in their uncomfortable ter
ror of pursuit, and went desperately
on toward the settlements.
Washington and the few officers and
provincials who scorned the terror
found the utmost difficulty in bringing
OF their stricken general, where ha
lay wishing to die. Upon the fourth
day after the battle he died, loathfns
the sight of a redcoat, they said, and
murmuring praises Of 1.-The blues" the
once despised Virgintans. They buried
his body in the road, that the army
wagons might pass over the place and
obliterate every trace Of grave theil
savage enemies might rejoice to find
and desecrate.
A Craven Commander.
He had lived to reach Dunbar'a
camp, but not to see the end Of thu
shameful rout. The terror mastered
the rear guard, too. They destroyed
their artillery, burned their wagons
and stores, emptied their powder into
the streams, and themselves broke in
to disordered feverish retreat which
was a mere flight. their cravan com
mander shamefully acQuiescing. HI
would not even hold or rally them al
Fort Cumberland, but went on, as Il
upon a hurried errand, all the way tt
Philadelphia, leaving the fort, and
all the frontier with it, ito be de
Tended by invalids and a few Vir
ginians."
II acknowledge" cried Dinwiddle, 81
was not brought up to arms; but
think common sense would have pre-
vailed not to leave the frontier expos
ed after having opened a road ove1
the mountains to the Ohio, by which
the enemy can the more easily invade
Us. The whole conduct Of Colone
Dunbar seems to be monstrous." An<
50, indeed it was.
But the colonies at large had 1ittl,
time to think of it. Governor shirle,
had gone against Niagara only to fine
the French ready for him at ever!
point. now that they had read Brad
docks papers, taken at 'DuQuesne, ant
to come back again without doing any
thing. Beausejour had been taken II
Acadia, but it lay apart from the mali
field Of struggle. Johnson beat tn
French of at Lake George when the,
attacked him, and took. Dieskau, thei
commander; but he contented himsel