Answer: The British soldiers panicked when they were shot at.
Step-by-step explanation:
This passage, published in The Public Advertiser on September 20th, 1755, is part of a letter from Fort Cumberland, from July 16, published as an account of Braddock's Defeat.
Braddock's Defeat was a failed British military expedition venturing to seize the French Fort Duquesne during the French and Indian Wars in the summer of 1755.