Event · Significance tier 3 · provisional assessment
Braddock's army is defeated on the Monongahela
French, Canadian, and Native forces shattered Major General Edward Braddock's expedition near Fort Duquesne.
- Category
- imperial war
- Episode relations
- 1
Episode coverage
Episode 1
substantial · spoken: caption verified
Visual check: sequence context
Why this coverage: Braddock's defeat and death are explicitly narrated in the checked Ohio-war sequence.
Caption entry: 00:14:13.319
Reviewed sequence context: ep1-cue-02-ohio-war
Why it matters
The defeat demonstrated Native and French military power, destabilized the frontier, and made provincial defense an urgent imperial problem.
Why this provisional tier
This tier predates canonical assessment v1. It remains a research hypothesis and must not be used as settled label priority.
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