Fort Necessity National
Battlefield
In the wooded glen not many miles
away and here on this "charming field for an encounter",
Lt. Col. George Washington started it all. Shown
here is a reconstruction of the small fort where
Washington offered his only surrender to a foreign
power. It was the beginning of the French and
Indian War in North America that necessitated the
sending of Gen. Edward Braddock and two regiments of
British regulars to finish what the colonials had
started. When Col. Washington passed by here with Gen.
Braddock in 1755 the bones of some of the men killed in
'54 were still lying parched on the ground.
www.nps.gov/fone/home.htm
Ft. Pitt (Ft. Duquesne)
Built on the location of Ft. Duquesne at the Forks of
the Ohio, Ft. Pitt was the British fort guarding this
strategic river location beginning in 1758 on through
the Revolution. It was built by British Gen. John Forbes
who in 1758 finally took the fort that Gen. Braddock had
lost his life trying to conquer.
http://www.fortpittmuseum.com/

Gen.
Braddock's remains were discovered many years after his
death by a road crew repairing the road under which he
had been buried to hide his body from scavaging Indians.
He was reburied under this monument by the new section
of Rt. 40 in Pennsylvania.
Braddock's
Grave

Carlyle House in
Alexandria, Virginia was used by Gen. Braddock for
his historic meeting with the colonial governors. At
this meeting he revealed the British plan for the
elimination of the French threat to the American
colonies.
Carlyle
House
A Tour of Braddock’s Road from Fort Necessity to Pittsburgh by Frank A. Cassell & Elizabeth W. Cassell is a virtual tour of Braddock's route on the web site of Westmoreland County Historical Society.
Col. Washington's Frontier
Forts Association is an association of sites in
Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania
working together to prepare for the 250th anniversary of
the French and Indian War.
http://www.FrontierForts.org