Braddock

[ brad-uhk ]

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noun

Edward, 1695–1755, British general in America.
a city in SW Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh: the site of General Braddock's defeat by the French and Indians 1755.

The mayors who turned around the world's cocaine capital ( Medellin) and a dying steel town ( Braddock, Pennsylvania).

Talk with the mayor who brings an Ivy League mind and tattooed arms to save Braddock, Pennsylvania.

Besides, Fetterman says, the newcomers aren't about to push anyone out of Braddock who hasn't left already.

He thinks of reinventing Braddock similarly, trying anything to get creative types to plant roots.

Fetterman first came to Braddock in 2001 as an AmeriCorps volunteer.

He saw Gen. Braddock as he passed on to his defeat, and could give a succinct account of that sanguinary action.

Braddock, however, ordered his men to keep their formation and fire simultaneously.

Half of Braddock's 1600 troops were killed or wounded, Braddock himself being fatally wounded in action.

Braddock bravely rallied his men again and again; but not knowing how to fight unseen foes, they were helplessly slain.

The British and American troops, properly equipped, now started out again to carry out Braddock's plan.

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