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 circu
lar 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: 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.
While it is difficult to determine exactly how many Natives lived in North America before Columbus, estimates range from a low of 2.1 million to 7 million people to a high of 18 million.
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution prevents the government from making laws which regulate an establishment of religion, prohibit the free exercise of religion, or abridge the freedom
