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Edward Braddock
Major General Edward Braddock (January 1695 – 13 July 1755) was a British officer and commander-in-chief for the Thirteen Colonies during the actions at the start of the French and Indian War (1754–1763), which is also known in Europe and Canada as the Seven Years' War (1756–1763). He is generally best remembered for his command of a disastrous expedition against the French-occupied Ohio River Valley in 1755, in which he lost his life. (Both Virginia and Pennsylvania claimed this
between the British and the French, with each side seeking control of the North American colonies. While the Iroquois refused to take sides for the first four years of the conflict, the Lenape and the Shawnee joined the Huron in forging an alliance with the French. 
On July 9, 1755, the French and their Native American allies decisively defeated a combined force of American and British soldiers led by General Edward Braddock at the Battle of the Monongahela in Braddock's Field, Pennsylvania, 10 miles east of Pittsburgh. Three months