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but had scarcely done so when a bullet pierced his
lungs, It is alleged that the shot was fired bygone of
his own men, but thisstatement is without proof. The
retreat soon turned into a rout, and all who remained
dashed pell-mell through the river to the opposite shore,
abandoning the wounded, the cannon, and all the bage-
gage and papers to the-mercy of the Indians. Beaujeu
had fallen early in the conflict. Dumas and Ligneris
did not pursue the flying enemy, but retired to the Fort,
abandoning the field to the savages, which soon became
a pandemonium of pillage and murder. Of the eighty-six
English officers all but twenty-three were killed or
disabled, and but a remnant of the soldiers escaped.
When the Indians returned to the Fort, they brought
with them twelve or fourteen prisoners, their bodies
blackened and their hands tied behind their backs.
These were all burned to death on the bank of the Alle-
gheny, opposite the Fort. The loss of the French was
slight; of the regulars there were but four killed or
wounded, and all the Canadians returned to the Fort
unhurt except five.
The miserable remnant of Braddock’s army contin-
ued their wild flight all that night and all the next day,
when before nightfall those who had not fainted by
the way reached Christopher Gist’s farm, but six miles
from Dunbar’s Camp. The wounded general had
shown an incredible amount of courage and endurance.
After trying in vain to stop the flight, he was lifted on
a horse, when fainting from the effects of his mortal
wound, some of the men were induced by large bribes
to carry him in a litter-. Braddock ordered a detach-
ment from the camp to go to the relief of the stragglers,
but as the fugitives kept coming in with their tales of
horror, the panic seized the camp, and soldiers and
teamsters fied.
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