The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-26
G0l ONlAL DANES ERECT SHAFT ON
 BRADDOCK TRAIL

Alexandria, Va, May 26 Marking the point from which Major General Edward Braddock and his force of British regulars and Virginia troops with Colonel George Washington as aide-de- camp departed from here in 1755, on the disastrous expedition to take Fort puquesns, tie present site of P1tIsburgh. Pa. in the war against the French ana Indians, an lnterest- ing n1onun1snt' was l11zva ae1ed here to- day by the Secdety of the Co1oniaI Danes of Virginia
 Many members of the Society Of the Colonial Danes, the Daughters of the American Revolution and other patriotic sssozatIes from various parts of Virginia, the District of Co1umbias Maryland and Pennsyf zauia witness ed the presentat1o on of the monument to officials oe the city of Alexandria. Many of those present will take part tomorrow in the unvie1ing of a siIni1- ar monument in Winchester, Virginia
 One of the old British cannons abandoned here by General Brasddock srrrnol1nts the monument- For many years the cannon has stood upright fh the earth at one of the cityss street corners as a marker and was an obs ject Of interest to sightseers. By an act Of the city council several years ago the ancient piece Of ordnance, brought from England by General dock when he came ol1t to Virginia as generalissirnO of all the British forces in the American Colonies in the war against the French, was turn ed over to the Mount vernon Chapter Revolution- This organization today Normally present it to the Virginia lCoIonial Danes under whose auspices l the nnOnument was erected.
 Forming the base Of the namonu- ment and mounting the old cannon lare other relics of by-gone days in the shape of cobblestones for which l more than a. century served A1exan- dria as paving in some of its princi- 1 pal streets and which show the ruts |worn by the artillery and transport 1of the Northern Armies during the IC.iv1l War. The stones are said by tra- dition to have been laid on A1exan- l dria streets by Hessian soldiers cap I tured fn the War of the Relutfon by 1 the Continental troops
 | A bronze tablet on one side of the T base Of the monument bears this in-
 .sThis raonument marks the trail taken by the Army of General Brad fdock, which left in April, 1755, to de-. T fend the western Frontier against the shsociety of the Colonial Danes of Vir- I gfnfa, May 26s 1916s.
 On the opposite side Of the BcuIder Eembedded base this inscription ap- fDGaFS on AK1Ot09Es IaOk6La59Is OTQnZo4
 ssThe cannon used here was aban- tdoned by General Braddock at old IAIexandria April 1756. The Cob bIestones connpoaing the 1acl1sat were l taken from the streets of AIexan dria IWhere they were pIaced in 1T 8B by iact Of the Virginia House Of Burgess les"
 | General Bradd oclzs expedIt1on, .Iplans of which he related to Benjalrlill I Franklin in a conference at Frederick l town, was to march to Fort Duquesne.
 After taking Fort Duquesness the I General is quoted as saying, am to 1 proceed to Niagara; and. having sta- :. ken that to Frontenac if the season
 will allow time, and I suppose 1t WILL for Duauesne can hardly detain ms l above three or four days; and then l
 can see nothing to obstruct my march l to Niagara A ] Tn the battle at Fort Duauesne, l July g, 1755, General Braddock was
 mortaI1y wounded. Colonel George
 Washington was the only member Of
 his staff to escape unhurt- The I British and CoIonia1s lost SIT officers
 and men killed or wounded out of 1,- T 459 engaged while the French loss
 was trihing, and only the genius of Washington saved the survivors from
 massacre.
 General Braddoek died July 1s, [ 1755, at Great Meadows. about 60
 miles from Fort Duquesne, tos which place the remnants of his army re- HIreated. He was buried at q. point