Braddock
Braddock names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Braddock EDWARD, a British soldier
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EDWARD, a British soldier, born in Perthshire, Scotland, about 1695, entered the Coldstream Guards in 1710, and was appointed Major-General in 1754. Nine months later he sailed as commander against GEN. EDWARD BRADDOCK the French in America, and, with a force of nearly 2,000 British and provincial troops, reached the Monongahela, a branch of the Ohio, on July 8, 1755. Leaving the baggage behind, on the 9th he pushed forward with a chosen force to invest Fort Duquesne, on the present site of Pittsburgh, Pa. On the right bank of the river his advance guard was attacked by a party of about 900 French and Indians from the fort. After two hours' fighting, in which Braddock, whose bravery was never called in question, had four horses shot under him, and was mortally wounded while vainly trying to rally his men, the survivors made a hasty retreat under Washington, Braddock's aide-de-camp, the only one of who escaped unhurt. No less than 63 out of 86 officers, and 914 out of 1,373 men engaged, were either killed or wounded. The French loss was trifling. Braddock was carried from the field, and died July 13, 1755, at Great Meadows.
Braddock a borough of Pennsylvania
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a borough of Pennsylvania, in Allegheny co. It is on the Pennsylvania, the Baltimore and Ohio, and the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie railroads, and on the Monongahela river. The city is an important industrial community. It has manufactures of steel, pig iron, steel rails, etc. It has a Carnegie library which is the first established in America, a hospital, Federal building, a park. town is the site of Braddock's defeat in 1755. Pop. (1910) 19,257; (1920) 20,879.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's described Braddock, Pennsylvania in 1921 as "an important industrial community" of 20,879 people making steel, pig iron and rails. The mills largely went: the borough's population fell to about 1,700 by the 2020 census, one of the sharpest collapses of any American town, though U.S. Steel's Edgar Thomson Works next door still pours steel and the Carnegie library of 1889 — correctly noted as the first in America — was restored and reopened as a community centre. Braddock also gained a national profile after 2005 under mayor John Fetterman, later a U.S. senator. On General Braddock the 1921 account still stands; his remains, dug up beside the old road near Great Meadows in 1804, now lie under a monument on the Braddock Road route in Fayette County.
Written for this edition, 2026.