At present I have no proposals made to me, nor have I any advice of such an intention, except from private hands.[1] [Footnote 1: Ibid.

180-81.] Braddock's defeat put an end to campaigning in Virginia for some time.
The consternation it caused, not only held the people of the sparse western settlements in alarm but agitated the tidewater towns and villages.

The Burgesses and many of the inhabitants had not yet learned their lesson sufficiently to set about reorganizing their army system, but the Assembly partially recognized its obligation to the men who had fought by voting to them a small sum for losses during their previous service.

Washington received L300, but his patriotic sense of duty kept him active.

In the winter of 1758, however, owing to a very serious illness, he resigned from the army and returned to Mount Vernon to recuperate.
During the long and tedious weeks of sickness and recovery, Washington doubtless had time to think over, to clarify in his mind, and to pass judgment on the events in which he had shared during the past six or seven years.