The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-05-26
COLONIAL DANES
UNVEIL MONUMENT
AT ALEXANDRIA, VA.
(By Associated Press)

Alexander, Va, May 26-Marking
he point from which Major General
Edward Braddock and his force of
British regulars and Virginia troops,
with Colonel George Washington as
departed from here in
April, 1855, on the disastrous expe- .
dition to take Fort Duquesne, the ,
present site of Pittsburgh, Pa, in .
the war against the French and In |
dams, an interesting monument was
unveiled here today by the society
of the Colonial Danes of Virginia.
Many members of the society of
Colonial Danes, the Daughters OF
the American Revolution and other
patriotic societies from various parts
of Virginia, the District of Columbia,
Maryland and Pennsylvania witness
ed the presentation of the monument
to officials of the city of Alexandria.
Many of those present will take part
tomorrow in the unwilling of SIM
liar monument at Winchester, Vir-
ginia.
One of the old British cannon
abandoned here by General Brad
dock surmounts the monument. For
many years the cannon had stood
upright in the earth at one of the
city's street corners as marker and
was an object of interest to sight
seers. BY an act of the city council
several years ago the ancient piece
of ordnance, brought from England
! by General Braddock when he came
out to Virginia as generallissimo of
all the British forces in the Ameri-
can Colonies in the war against the
French, was turned over to the
Mount Vernon Chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton. That organization today
formally presented it to the Vir.
ginia Colonial Danes under whose
auspices the monument was erect
ed
Forming the base of the monu
ment and mounting the old cannon
are other relics of by-gone days IL
the shape of cobblestones which TO
more than a century had served tn
city of Alexandria as paving in som
of it's principal streets and whicl
, show the ruts worn by the artiller
and transport of the orthern armie
during the Civil War. The stone
are said by tradition to have bee
Y laid on Alexandria's streets by Hes
e sian soldiers captured in the war
S the Revolution by the Continent:
/, troops.
h A bronze tablet on one side of tt
s base of the monument bears this II
scription:
This monument marks the ira
taken by the army Of General Bra
dock, which left in April, 1855,
:, defend the Western Frontier again
. the French and indians. Erected
tle SUCltly VI IAC SoAoAAoA D"AASo
Virginia, May rs, 1915"
On the opposite side of the boul
er-embedded base this inscripti
appears on another tablet of bronz
" "The cannon used here "
p abandoned by General Braddock
VI old Alexandria, April, 1855. I
Cobblestones composing the mot
were taken from the streets of AL
andria where they were placed
T., l17S5 by act of the Virginia Ho'
d. of Burgesses.
he General Braddock's expedite
ay plans of which he related to Ben
RI min Franklin in conference
es Fredericktown, was to march
Vi Fort Duquesne.
70 After taking Fort Duquesn
/, " the General is quoted as saying,
,;S am to proceed to Niagara; and, h
IN ing taken that, to Frontenac If
season will allow time, and !
pose it will, for Duquesne can ha
lily detain me above three or I
days; and then | can see nothing
obstruct my march to Niagara
In the battle at Fort Duque'
81 July 9, 1855, General Braddock
:" MORALLY wounded. Colonel Gee
Jul Washington was the only men
'ie' of his staff to escape unhurt.
Ne British and Colonials lost 677
III GERS and men killed or wounded
III of 1,459 engaged, while the Ere
!! loss was thrilling, and only
genius of Washington saved the
vivors from massacre.
ibi- General Braddock died July
'ca- 1855, at Great Meadows, about
can miles from Fort Duquesne, to W
an place the remnants of his army
zen. treated. He was buried at a 7
the now seven miles east of Uniont'
emf Pennsylvania.
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