Perth: Street by Street is an architectural, archaeological, geographical, historical, and visual journey around the city of Perth’s c.630 streets, avenues, closes, roads, and vennels. Drawing on a range of disciplines, Perth: Street by Street will appeal both to those readers interested in the history and life of Perth, and to anyone who has lived, worked, or spent time in Scotland’s Fair City. For the people of Perth and those who hail from St John’s Town, the book will be particularly poignant. Within its pages, readers may find their own homes, place of birth, workplaces, schools, favourite shops, and the public architecture and civic backdrop which form a part of their everyday existence. The book is available online from Amazon and other internet retailers, and from the following bookshops: Waterstones (Perth), WHSmith (Perth), Sweet Words (Dunkeld), as well as from Gloagburn Farm Shop by Tibbermore.
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General Edward Braddock - A Commander of British Troops Against French in America 1755
On 8 July 1755 General Braddock (1695-1755) and a force of 1373 soldiers and 86 officers set off and reached Monongahela. The next day the column set off for Fort Duquesne (current day Pittsburgh). Before they reached the fort they were ambushed by 900 French and Indian soldiers who were well-hidden and in very strong defensive positions. Braddock lost four horses from under him before taking a wound that later proved to be fatal.
Only the intervention of George Washington, the only functioning officer, allowed some troops to make a safe withdrawal from combat. General Braddock made it as far as Great Meadows, 60 miles from the ambush, before succumbing to his wounds. Of the column under Braddock's command 63 officers and 914 soldiers were either killed or wounded. The French forces suffered insignificant casualties.
Sixty years earlier Edward Braddock had been born in Perthshire. He signed up for the Coldstream Guards in 1710, became a Major-General in 1754 and by 1755 was given command against the French in America. He had previously served in France with Admiral Lesstocks' expedition to L'Orient (1746) and in the Netherlands under the Prince of Orange (1746-48).
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