BRADDOCK, EDWARD British general, was born in Perthshire, Scotland, about 1695. He joined the Coldstream Guards in 1710 and served under the prince of Orange in Holland during the siege of Bergen-op-Zoom in I710. In 1754 he became a major-general, and was appointed to command against the French in Virginia in Feb. 1755. After some months of preparation, in which he was hampered by administrative con fusion and want of resources, he took the field with a picked column, in which George Washington served, intending to attack Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh, Pa.). The column crossed the Monon gahela river on July 9, and almost immediately afterwards fell into an ambuscade of French and Indians. The troops were completely surprised and routed, and Braddock, rallying his men time after time, fell at last mortally wounded and died on the 13th. He was buried at Great Meadows.