Washington's Early Campaigns: the French Post Expedition, Great Meadows and Braddock's Defeat-including Braddock's Orderly Books

Washington's campaigns in British service

It is simple to view George Washington as the most famous and successful soldier of the American War of Independence or indeed as the first president of the newly created United States. His military career began, of course, long before these illustrious years of his life. For more than twenty years before the battles that severed North America from Britain, Washington served on campaign and on the battlefield in the service of his fellow colonial set...