 The only problem with this plan was that the British had sent the wrong man. General Braddock, by all accounts, was a bit of a jerk. He was temperamental and stubborn. He would never lower himself to listen to his colonial subordinates, and that includes Washington himself. That's a problem when your subordinates know the landscape better than you do. And he wasn't just a jerk. He also didn't know how to fight, at least not in North America. He may have known how to fight in Europe, where you have large set battles in open fields, but this is North America.