In the summer of 1755, Britain and France were fighting an undeclared war over the forks of the Ohio River, where the French had built Fort Duquesne (today’s Pittsburgh). Major General Edward Braddock, a 60-year-old career officer, cut a twelve-foot road through 110 miles of mountain wilderness to take the fort with roughly 1,300 regulars, provincials, sailors, artillery, and a train of wagons and packhorses.
Riding with him as an unpaid volunteer aide-de-camp was 23-year-old George Washington of Virginia — six feet two, red-haired, ambitious, and desperate for a royal commission. Washington had spent the previous two weeks flat on his back in a wagon with bloody flux...
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