Hello, welcome to Iroquois History and Legends.

I'm Andrew.

And I'm Caleb.

And welcome to episode 27, the French and Indian War, part two.

Now, when we left off last week, Andrew, George Washington and his colonial militia just walked all the way back

to Virginia with their tails between their legs after getting defeated at Fort Necessity.

And now the French have taken over the forks of the Ohio, and they're pretty much in control

of the whole Western frontier. Now, the colonists have shown themselves to be pretty much

incompetent. The Burgesses and the other governors don't really want to raise all this money for another

expedition so they write a letter to the King of England and they say, hey, your majesty,

we are your loyal servants and we would really appreciate it if you would send some soldiers

over here.

And in the past the king was always kind of hesitant to send troops to North America because it's very expensive

Red commissioned officers and soldiers make quite a bit of money they're not like the volunteer militia they get paid a weekly stipend of a glass of rum

These are people you have to pay every day. You've got to buy cannon.

You've got to ship them all over there with horses. So it's just very expensive. So the king has always been very

reluctant to send large amounts of troops to North America. But he's starting to get word from his

advisors that it might be best to send an army there. And that's because they're starting to worry that the

Americans are going to start raising their own armies and become self-sufficient and whenever you

have somebody paying taxes to you you don't want them to become self-sufficient you want them to be

dependent on you so he gets a scott and what was the scots name Andrew Andrew? His name was Mr. Edward Braddock the Third.

Edward Braddock the third.

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