In 1755, Washington was the senior American aide to British General Edward Braddock on the ill-fated Braddock expedition.

) Prevost recognised the need for soldiers who understood forest warfare, unlike the regulars who were brought to America in 1755 by General Braddock.

A British expedition under General Braddock had been despatched and defeated in summer 1755 which caused a ratcheting up of tensions.

The place, known as Owen's Ordinary, took on greater prominence when, on April 14, 1755, Major General Edward Braddock stopped at Owen's Ordinary on a start of a mission from George Town ( now Washington, D. C .) to press British claims of the western frontier.

In 1755, he was a wagon driver in General Edward Braddock's attempt to drive the French out of the Ohio Country, which ended the Braddock expedition at what is known as the Battle of the Monongahela.

General Edward Braddock's expeditionary march to Fort Duquesne crossed through this area in 1755 on the way to Fort Cumberland.

* Edward Duyker Citizen Labillardière: A Naturalist ’ s Life in Revolution and Exploration ( 1755 — 1834 ), Miegunyah / Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2003, ISBN 0-522-85010-3, Paperback reprint, 2004, ISBN 0-522-85160-6, pp. 383 ( including notes, glossaries, zoological, botanical and general index ), 12 maps, 18 black and white plates New South Wales Premier ’ s General History Prize, 2004.

Later, as a Colonel in 1755, he was to accompany General Braddock on the old Indian Trail that ran through the valley on his way to Fort Cumberland.

The town is named for General Edward Braddock ( 1695 – 1755 ).

Braddock Hills is located northwest of Braddock's Field, the site of General Edward Braddock's 1755 defeat during the French and Indian War.

In 1755 General Edward Braddock and British troops left Virginia and used Fraser as the guide with General Washington as the aide on the expedition.

In spring 1755, Washington returned to the area to prepare for General Edward Braddock's attack on Fort Duquesne ( commonly referred to as Braddock's March ).

The combination of the words as " Hampton Roads " was recorded as the channel linking the James, Elizabeth, and Nansemond rivers with the Chesapeake Bay in an act of the Virginia General Assembly in 1755.

In 1755, the younger and less experienced Morphyse was married off to an Auvergne nobleman, Jacques de Beaufranchet, seigneur d ' Ayat ( Lord of Ayat ) and uncle of the illustrious General Louis Desaix, who fought during the French Revolution under General Napoleon Bonaparte.

* Monsieur Raymond ( 1755 – 1798 ), French Adventurer, General and friend of the Nizam of Hyderabad State

Lieutenant General Count Hans Axel von Fersen ( Stockholm 4 September 1755 – Stockholm 20 June 1810 ) was a Swedish Count, a Lieutenant General in the Royal Swedish Army, one of the Lords of the Realm, diplomat and statesman.

* Lieutenant General Willem Anne van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle, 1744 – 1755

* Lieutenant General James O ' Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley, 1755 – 1773

* William Bradford ( Attorney General ) ( 1755 – 1795 ), soldier, jurist, U. S. Attorney General under George Washington

William Bradford ( September 14, 1755 – August 23, 1795 ) was a lawyer and judge from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the second United States Attorney General in 1794-1795.

In a second British act of aggression, Admiral Edward Boscawen fired on the French ship Alcide on June 8, 1755, capturing her and two troop ships.

The British defeated France in Acadia in the Battle of Fort Beausejour ( 1755 ) and then Île Royale ( Cape Breton Island ) ( which also administered Île Saint-Jean ( Prince Edward Island ) with the Siege of Louisbourg ( 1758 ).

The Acadians, the francophone inhabitants of Acadia ( modern Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and northern Maine ), were expelled from their homeland between 1755 and 1763 by the British.

* 1739 – 1755 H. M. Edward I

In 1755, he went with Edward Boscawen to North America as captain of Dunkirk, and his capture of the French Alcide was the first shot fired in the war.

In 1755 two British regiments under General Edward Braddock were sent to America.

Another son, William Jr., was killed in 1755 at the Battle of the Monongahela whilst serving with Edward Braddock.

Rodney had in 1755 and 1756, taken part in preventive cruises under Hawke and Edward Boscawen.

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* George Edward Henry Arthur Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis ( 1755 – 1801 )

* Sir Edward Stanley, 5th Baronet ( d. 1755 )

In January 1755 he was appointed first lieutenant of the 90-gun with Captain Charles Saunders, and on 22 April 1755 he was promoted to command the 8-gun sloop, attached during the year to the western squadron cruising under the command of Sir Edward Hawke or Vice-Admiral John Byng.

* 1739 – 1755 H. M. Edward I, King of the Miskito Nation

* Edward Duyker ( 2003 ) Citizen Labillardière: A Naturalist ’ s Life in Revolution and Exploration ( 1755 — 1834 ), Miegunyah / Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2003, ISBN 0-522-85010-3, Paperback reprint, 2004, ISBN 0-522-85160-6, pp. 383 New South Wales Premier ’ s General History Prize, 2004.

* 1755 – French and Indian War: Braddock Expedition – British troops and colonial militiamen are ambushed and suffer a devastating defeat by French and Native American forces.

Braddock ( with George Washington as one of his aides ) led about 1, 500 army troops and provincial militia on an expedition in June 1755 to take Fort Duquesne.

The first recorded mention of the settlement which would later become known as Rockville dates to the Braddock Expedition in 1755.

The Braddock Expedition, particularly his crossing of the Monongahela River on July 9, 1755 at this place, led to the British general's own fatal wounding and a sound defeat of his troops who had been moving against the French at Fort Duquesne.

During the battle Braddock was wounded, dying on July 13, 1755, in nearby Uniontown.

" Braddock Road ( Braddock expedition ) passed through the western end of the future town in 1755, opening the area to settlement.

St Clair accompanied Braddock on his ill-fated march on Fort Duquesne and his disastrous defeat on July 9, 1755.

Although there is no direct evidence, he possibly took part in the famous French and Indian victory over the Braddock expedition on July 9, 1755.

They speak of his 1755 efforts to help British Redcoats led by Braddock in their march to defeat the French at Fort Dusquesne ( in today's Pittsburgh ).

The Braddock expedition, also called Braddock's campaign or, more commonly, Braddock's Defeat, was a failed British military expedition which attempted to capture the French Fort Duquesne ( modern-day downtown Pittsburgh ) in the summer of 1755 during the French and Indian War.

By July 8, 1755, the Braddock force was on the land owned by the Chief Scout, Lieutenant John Fraser.