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Rh Halket's regiment went from Alexandria to Winchester, Virginia by the following route as given in Braddock's Orderly Books:

At Winchester Halket was only five miles distant from "Widow Baringer's" on Dunbar's road from Frederick to Fort Cumberland.

One of the few monuments of Braddock's days stands beside the Potomac, within the limits of the city of Washington. It is a gigantic rock, the "Key of Keys," now almost lost to sight and forgotten. It may still be found, and efforts are on foot to have it appropriately marked. It is known in tradition as "Braddock's Rock"—on the supposition that here some of Brad-