Edward Braddock – Axios Press

Edward Braddock

1695 – 1755

English

General. His stiff adherence to convention during a colonial French and Indian war destroyed his army and cost him his own life.

Contemporaries

1640–1716	William Wycherley
1727–1759	James Wolfe
1727–1797	John Wilkes
1714–1770	George Whitefield
1703–1791	John Wesley
1707–1788	Charles Wesley
1717–1797	Horace Walpole
1664–1726	Sir John Vanbrugh
1732–1822	William Tuke
1736–1812	John Tooke
1634–1716	Robert South
1750–1814	Joanna Southcott
1651–1716	John Somers
1671–1713	Anthony Shaftesbury
1627–1705	John Ray
1735–1811	Robert Raikes
1733–1804	Joseph Priestley
1688–1744	Alexander Pope
1633–1703	Samuel Pepys
1644–1718	William Penn
1743–1805	William Paley
1737–1809	Thomas Paine
1649–1705	Titus Oates
1642–1727	Isaac Newton
1745–1833	Hannah More
1639–1709	William Mompesson
?–1734	Lady Abigail Masharn
1632–1704	John Locke
1645–1701	William Kidd
1704–1764	John Kay
1746–1794	Sir William Jones
1709–1784	Samuel Johnson
1749–1823	Edward Jenner
fl. c. 1726–c. 1790	John Howard
1705–1757	David Hartley
1720–1778	James Hargreaves
1716–1771	Thomas Gray
1751–1793	Lord George Gordon
1737–1794	Edward Gibbon
1717–1779	David Garrick
1749–1806	Charles Fox
fl. c. 1707–c. 1754	Henry Fielding
1620–1706	John Evelyn
1743–1823	Edmund Cartwright
1750–1822	John Debrett
1631–1718	Richard Cumberland
1728–1779	James Cook
1675–1729	Samuel Clarke
1680–1740	Ephraim Chambers
1740–1824	John Cartwright
1710–1773	Alban Butler
1692–1752	Joseph Butler
1715–1783	Lancelot Brown
1754–1825	Thomas Bowdler
1728–1809	Matthew Boulton
1678–1751	Henry Bolingbroke
1754–1817	William Bligh
1723–1780	Sir William Blackstone
1748–1832	Jeremy Bentham
1702–1761	Thomas Bayes
1743–1820	Sir Joseph Banks
1626–1697	John Aubrey
1732–1792	Sir Richard Arkwright
1672–1719	Joseph Addison