signs for the troops to follow them toward the spot from which it came. In a short time they reached the Indian warrior, who, by his cry, announced to his companions that he had found the place where he was posted on the day of battle. As the troops approached, he pointed to the tree under which the officers had fallen. Captain West halted his men round the spot, and, with Sir Peter Halket and the other officers, formed a circle, while the Indians removed the leaves which thickly covered the ground (the leaves of three seasons). The skeletons were found, as the Indian expected, lying across each other. The officers having looked at them for some time, the major said that as his father had an artificial tooth, he thought he might be able to ascertain if they were indeed his bones and those of his brother. The Indians were therefore ordered to remove the skeleton of the youth, and to bring to view that of the old officer. This was done, and after a short examination, Major Halket exclaimed, "It is my father!" and fell back into the arms of his companions. The pioneers then dug a grave, and the bones being laid in it together, a Highland plaid was spread over them, and they were interred with the customary honors."--Galt's _Life of West_.] [Footnote 32: "The whole was in disorder, and, it is said, the general himself, though exceedingly brave, did not retain all the _sang froid_ that was necessary."--Walpole's _Letters to Sir Horace Mann_, August 28, 1755.] [Footnote 33: _MS. Journal of Major-general Braddock's Expedition against Forte du Quesne_, 1755. Royal Artillery Library, Woolwich. "He was borne off the field by some soldiers whom his aid-de-camp had bribed to that service by a guinea and a bottle of rum to each."--Lord Mahon's _Hist. of England_, vol. iv., p. 70.] [Footnote 34: "Among the rest, the general's cabinet, with all his letters and instructions, which the French court afterward made great use of in their printed manifestoes."--Smollett's _Hist. of England_, vol. iii., p. 448; Belsham, vol. ii., p. 369.] [Footnote 35: "Major Washington acquired on this occasion, in the midst of defeat, the honors and laurels of victory."--Belsham, vol. ii., p. 369. "They had seen a chosen army from that country, which, reverencing as a mother, they had fondly believed invincible; an army led by a chief who had been selected from a crowd of trained warriors for his rare military endowments, disgracefully routed by a handful of French and Indians, and only saved from annihilation by the spirit and coolness of a Virginian boy, whose riper fame has since diffused itself with the steady influence of moral truth to the uttermost confines of Christendom."--_Last of the Mohicans._]