This was the knowledge, fatal in after days to British supremacy, which Braddock's defeat brought to Washington and to the colonists, and which was never forgotten.

Could he have looked into the future, he would have seen also in this ill-fated expedition an epitome of much future history.

The expedition began with stupid contempt toward America and all things American, and ended in ruin and defeat.

It was a bitter experience, much heeded by the colonists, but disregarded by England, whose indifference was paid for at a heavy cost.
After the hasty retreat, Colonel Dunbar, stricken with panic, fled onward to Philadelphia, abandoning everything, and Virginia was left naturally in a state of great alarm.

The assembly came together, and at last, thoroughly frightened, voted abundant money, and ordered a regiment of a thousand men to be raised.