An account of the July 1755 defeat of British troops to French and Native American forces at the Battle of the Monongahela, testing ground for the American Revolution.

• Introduction: The Myth and History of Braddock's Defeat


• 1: Paths to the Monongahela


• 2: Braddock Americanus


• 3: Confrontations


• 4: Beaujeu's Convoy


• 5: Braddock's March


• 6: Braddock's Defeat


• 7: Consequences


• Epilogue: Revolutionary Echoes

David L. Preson is the Westvaco Professor of National Security Studies at the Citadel. He is the author of The Texture of Contact: European and Indian Settler Communities on the Frontiers of Iroquoia, 1667-1783.