Question

The French and Indians, the Number of each not known, had, as we found after, possessed the Sides and Brow of a Hill, in a circular Form, from the Extreme of which some of them fired upon one of our advanced Flank Parties. This immediately struck a general Pannic; the Men could not be persuaded to form regularly; in great Confusion they fell back. . . . [N]o Order could be restored.
According to this account, what happened in the battle?

Answer 1

Answer: The British soldiers panicked when they were shot at.

Explanation:

This passage, published in The Public Advertiser on September 20th, 1755, is part of a letter from Fort Cumberland, from July 16, published as an account of Braddock's Defeat.

Braddock's Defeat was a failed British military expedition venturing to seize the French Fort Duquesne during the French and Indian Wars in the summer of 1755.

Answer 2

Answer:

A. The British soldiers panicked when they were shot at.

Explanation: