 As he lay dying, he ordered Washington to send word to another British division 40 miles away for aid. This meant that for Washington, his work was not over. Though exhausted from illness and hours of combat, he rode all night through the woods to that division for help. When it was all said and done, the Braddock expedition was a disaster for the British. Braddock was dead and the myth of their invisibility had been shattered. A lesson the colonials would never forget. However,