Braddock's Road broke the league the French had made with the Alleghenies; it showed that British grit could do as much in the interior of America as in India or Africa or Egypt; it was the first important material structure in this New West, so soon to be filled with the sons of those who had hewn it. FOOTNOTES: [1] Entick, _History of the Late War_, vol. i., p. 110. [2] Entick, _History of the Late War_, vol. i., p. 124. [3] _Apology for the Life of George Anne Bellamy_, vol. iii., p. 55. [4] _Letters of Walpole_, (edited by Cunningham, London 1877), vol. ii., p. 461. [5] Entick _History of the Late War_, vol. i., p. 142. [6] _History of the Late War_, vol. i., p. 142. [7] _Gentleman's Magazine_, vol. 75, p. 389 (1755); also _A Review of the Military Operations in North America_, London, 1757, p. 35. [8] _A letter relating to the Ohio Defeat_, p. 14. [9] Walpole's _Memoirs of George II_, vol. ii., p. 29. [10] Walpole's _Memoirs of George II_, vol. ii., p. 29; also London _Evening Post_, September 9-11, 1755. [11] Walpole's _Memoirs of George II_, vol. i., p. 397; Sargent's _History of Braddock's Expedition_, p. 153, note. [12] Minutes taken "At a Council at the Camp at Alexandria in Virginia, April 14, 1755." Public Records Office, London: _America and West Indies_, No. 82. [13] Braddock's MS. Letters, Public Records Office, London: _America and West Indies_, No. 82. [14] For these early routes through Pennsylvania, partially opened in 1755, see _Historic Highways of America_, vol. v., chap. I. [15] _Maryland Archives_; Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, vol. i., pp. 77 and 97. [16] Preserved at the Congressional Library, Washington. [17] Eight miles from Alexandria. See Note 26. [18] Arguments pro and con have been interestingly summed up by Dr. Marcus Benjamin of the U. S. National Museum, in a paper read before the Society of Colonial Dames in the District of Columbia April 12, 1899, and by Hugh T. Taggart in the _Washington Star_, May 16, 1896. For a description of routes converging on Braddock's Road at Fort Cumberland see Gen. Wm. P. Craighill's article in the _West Virginia Historical Magazine_, vol. ii, no. 3 (July, 1902), p. 31. Cf. pp. 179-181. [19] London, Groombridge & Sons, 1854. Mr. Morris, in footnotes, gave what he considered any important variations of the original manuscript from the expanded version he was editing; Mr. Sargent reproduced these notes, without having seen the original. [20] _History of Braddock's Expedition_, p. 359, note. [21] _History of Braddock's Expedition_, p. 359, note. [22] Mr. Gordon evidently used the word "self" in his entry of June 3 to throw any too curious reader off the track. [23] _History of Braddock's Expedition_, p. 387. [24] _History of Braddock's Expedition_, p. 365.