Excerpt from Address of Hon. Philander Chase Knox at the Dedication of the Monument Erected to the Memory of Major-General Edward Braddock: In Braddock Memorial Park, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, October 15th, 1913 Upon a modest tablet nearby, amidst the beauty and quiet of these protecting moun tains, there is carved a sentence which dis closes the reason why we are here today to honor the memory of a valiant British officer. This tablet marks the resting place of an ensign of the French army who fell in an engagement with Major George Washington's command in what the tablet describes as the first conflict at arms between the French and English for supremacy in the Mississippi Valley. The struggle thus precipitated be tween the French and English in which General Braddock so soon became conspic uously prominent might with accuracy have been more broadly stated as one immediately involving anglo-saxon supremacy in North America, the primacy of the English-speaking people in moulding and conserving the civilization of the West and more remotely the readjustment of the political equilibrium of the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.