I am still in a weak and feeble condition, which induces me to halt here two or three days in the hope of recovering a little strength, to enable me to proceed homewards from whence, I fear, I shall not be able to stir till toward September so that I shall not have the pleasure of seeing you till then, unless it be in Fairfax… I am, honored Madam, your most dutiful son. Captains Orme and Morris, two of the aids-de-camp, were wounded early in the engagement, which rendered the duty harder upon me, as I was the only person then left to distribute the General’s orders, which I was scarcely able to do, as I was not half recovered from a violent illness, that had confined me to my bed and a wagon for above ten days. I luckily escaped without a wound, though I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me. Sir Peter Halket was killed in the field, where died many other brave officers. The General was wounded, of which he died three days after. In short, the dastardly behavior of those they call regulars exposed all others, that were inclined to do their duty, to almost certain death and, at last, in despite of all the efforts of the officers to the contrary, they ran, as sheep pursued by dogs, and it was impossible to rally them. ![]() Captain Polson had nearly as hard a fate, for only one of his was left. Captain Peyrouny, and all his officers down to a corporal, were killed. Truman ( CVN 75 ) Battle Group USS Nimitz ( CVN 68 ) USS Mount Whitney ( LCC 20 ) USS George Washington ( CVN 78 ) Battle. The Virginia troops showed a good deal of bravery, and were nearly all killed for I believe, out of three companies that were there, scarcely thirty men are left alive. The officers behaved gallantly, in order to encourage their men, for which they suffered greatly, there being near sixty killed and wounded a large proportion of the number we had. When we came there, we were attacked by a party of French and Indians, whose number, I am persuaded, did not exceed three hundred men while ours consisted of about one thousand three hundred well-armed troops, chiefly regular soldiers, who were struck with such a panic that they behaved with more cowardice than it is possible to conceive. MASTER CHIEF PETTY Officer of the Navy (MCPON) MASTER CHIEF Electronics Technician John Hagen (center) speaks with members of the USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN. We marched to that place, without any considerable loss, having only now and then a straggler picked up by the French and scouting Indians. HONORED MADAM: As I doubt not but you have heard of our defeat, and, perhaps, had it represented in a worse light, if possible, than it deserves, I have taken this earliest opportunity to give you some account of the engagement as it happened, within ten miles of the French fort, on Wednesday the 9th instant. On its fourth deployment from June 2000 to December 2000, George Washington spent most of its six-month deployment in the Arabian Gulf as the cornerstone of the U.S. ![]() This letter, written by 23-year-old George Washington to his mother, Mary Washington, describes the battle near Pittsburgh in the French and Indian War in which the British and British Colonial forces under General Braddock were defeated.
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