{"id":350,"date":"2013-08-30T21:41:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T02:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/?p=350"},"modified":"2016-02-02T17:00:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T23:00:56","slug":"battle-of-the-monongahela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/blog\/battle-of-the-monongahela","title":{"rendered":"Battle of the Monongahela"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In 2006, PBS released a terrific two-part documentary titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/thewarthatmadeamerica\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The War that Made America<\/em><\/a> devoted to the 1756-1763 French and Indian War (or, &#8220;Great War for Empire&#8221;) which established Britain&#8217;s (temporary) mastery over the Eastern half of North America. The documentary does a particularly good job of dramatizing\u00a0 General Edward Braddock&#8217;s calamitous defeat at the &#8220;Battle of the Monongahela&#8221; (9 July 1755) which preceded the formal declaration of war between Britain and France. As we noted in class, Braddock&#8217;s stubborn refusal to abandon European linear formations in favor open, &#8220;irregular&#8221; tactics more suited to the environment and terrain proved his undoing.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Here&#8217;s what the disaster might have looked like:<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T33NCbQzOIg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/blog\/battle-of-the-monongahela\">Reply to this post<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006, PBS released a terrific two-part documentary titled The War that Made America devoted to the 1756-1763 French and Indian War (or, &#8220;Great War for Empire&#8221;) which established Britain&#8217;s (temporary) mastery over the Eastern half of North America. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,17,12],"tags":[18,19,20],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colonial-era","category-great-war-for-empire","category-native-americans","tag-battle-of-monongahela","tag-braddock","tag-great-war-for-empire-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6FjHf-5E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1250,"href":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/1250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}