econd time, and in
angling up the rather easy slope upon which is now built the
busy iron-making town of Braddock, Pa., was obliged to pass
through a heavily-wooded ravine. This was the place of the
ambuscade, where his army was cut to pieces. Indians from the
Upper Lakes, under the leadership of Charles Langlade, a
Wisconsin fur-trader, were the chief participants in this
affair, on the French side.--R. G. T.

[8] This statement about Capts. Grant and Lewis having taken
part in the battle of the Monongahela, is altogether a mistake.
It must have originated in some traditional account, and become
confused in some way with Grant's defeat, three years later, in
which Maj. James Grant and Maj. Andrew Lewis both took a
prominent part. There is no record of any Capt. Grant in
Braddock's army. Andrew Lewis, though a major, was still in
command of his company, and at the time of Braddock's defeat
was on detached service. Gov. Dinwiddie, writing to Maj. Lewis,
July 8, 1755, says: "You were ordered to Augusta with your
company to protect the frontier of that county;" and, in a
letter of the same date, to Col. Patton, the Governor adds:
"Enclosed you have a letter to Capt. Lewis, which please
forward to him: _I think he is at Greenbrier._" Capt. Robt.
Orme, aide-de-camp to Gen. Braddock, in his Journal appended to
Sargent's _History of Braddock's Expedition_, states under date
of April, 1755, that the Virginia troops having been clothed,
were ordered to march to Winchester, for arming and drilling,
and then adds: "Capt. Lewis was ordered with his company of
Rangers to Greenbrier river, there to build two stockade forts,
in one of which he was to remain himself and to detach to the
other a subaltern and fifteen men. These forts were to cover
the western settlers of Virginia from any inroads of
Indians."--L. C. D.

[9] The MS. Journal of Col. Charles Lewis, in possession of
the Wisconsin Historical Society, covering the period from
October 10 to December 27, 1755, is an unconsciously eloquent
picture of the hardships of life on the Virginia frontier, at
this time.--R. G. T.

[10] After the capitulation of Fort Necessity, and while
some of the soldiers of each army were intermixed