Question

> HISTORICAL THINKING

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READING CHECK How did Braddock's defeat at Fort Duquesne show that the
British were not ready to fight a frontier war?

Answer 1

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 (now Downtown Pittsburgh) in the summer of 1755, during the French and Indian War.

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