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188 entirely in a number of statements made concerning the incidents of the engagement. There ia cerfaunly no positive proof to contradict Foeait's statement, and it is not surprising that at his great ^e he should have forgotten many of .the facte of the transaction, dating back fifty years or more. There is nothing more probable than that Tom Fossit, angered by the stubbornness of the commander who was deter- mined to sacrifice the army to his foolish ideaa of fighting Indians, should have been impelled to this deed by revenge and hatred, when he witnessed the taking of his brother's life. Hon. Andrew Stewart, yf- when quite a boy, had heard Fossit assert that he shot Braddock, and at that time his story was generally accepted as the truth, as it still is, by nearly all the peo- ple living in that part ^yZ of Pennsylvania, who have treasured up the h legends pertaining to S the ill-fated expedition. The place of Brad- dock's sepulture was within a few yards of a small stream, the banks of which abruptly sloped down to the water, and distant about two miles — westwardly — from Fort Necessity. The grave was made immediately in the road, about a stone's throw from the present National Road. When the march