Braddock Road

The author provides a detailed historical account of an eighteenth-century British military expedition’s march and the road it forced through the Allegheny mountains, describing preparation, supply problems, relations with local Native groups, and the engineering and labor of cutting a wagon road along an existing Native trail. It surveys the route’s topography, obstacles such as ravines and dense forest, tactical and logistical consequences of delays, and later efforts to map and trace the road, offering topographical description, maps, and practical notes for identifying the original line across the modern landscape.