Key Information: George Washington, suffering from illness, was left behind at this camp. He would rejoin the army on July 8, just before the battle.
General Braddock’s 6th camp on the march to Fort Duquesne Saturday and Sunday June 20th and 21st, 1755. Washington was forced to remain behind with a guard on account of “violent fevers” until cured by “Dr. James’s Powders (one of the most excellent medicines in the world),” he wrote his brother Augustine.
