The expedition progresses slowly because Braddock considers…

June 1755 CE

The expedition progresses slowly because Braddock considers making a road to Fort Duquesne a priority in order to effectively supply the position he expects to capture and hold at the Forks of the Ohio, and because of a shortage of healthy draft animals.

In some cases, the column is only able to progress at a rate of two miles (about three kilometers) a day, creating Braddock's Road—an important legacy of the march—as they go.

To speed movement, Braddock splits his men into a "flying column" of about thirteen hundred men under his direct command, and, lagging far behind, a supply column of eight hundred men with most of the baggage, commanded by Colonel Thomas Dunbar.

They pass the ruins of Fort Necessity along the way, where the French and Canadians had defeated Washington the previous summer.

Small French and native war bands skirmish with Braddock's men during the march.

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