There is no stronger instance of Washington's power of impressing himself upon others than that he commanded now the respect and affection of his general, who was the last man to be easily or favorably affected by a young provincial officer.
Edward Braddock was a veteran soldier, a skilled disciplinarian, and a rigid martinet.

He was narrow-minded, brutal, and brave.

He had led a fast life in society, indulging in coarse and violent dissipations, and was proud with the intense pride of a limited intelligence and a nature incapable of physical fear.

It would be difficult to conceive of a man more unfit to be entrusted with the task of marching through the wilderness and sweeping the French from the Ohio.

All the conditions which confronted him were unfamiliar and beyond his experience.