Washington begged Braddock to throw his men into the woods, but all in vain.

Fight in platoons they must, or not at all.

The result was that they did not fight at all.

They became panic-stricken, and huddled together, overcome with fear, until at last when Braddock was mortally wounded they broke in wild rout and fled.

Of the regular troops, seven hundred, and of the officers, who showed the utmost bravery, sixty-two out of eighty-six, were killed or wounded.