Description
<p>In this painting, a young George Washington directs the fighting from his horse during the Battle of the Monongahela, on July 9, 1775, during the Seven Years’ War. A column of 1,700 British regulars and colonial militia were marching toward the French-held Fort Duquesne on the Forks of the Ohio River when they were ambushed by French soldiers and their Indigenous allies. A rout of the British ensued. Washington later wrote, “We have been most scandalously beaten by a trifling body of men.”</p><p>Among those killed in the fighting was British general Edward Braddock.</p>
