George Washington Shot Four Times
On July 9, 1755, the British General Braddock was leading fifteen hundred British regulars and Virginia militia into the Western regions of the Colonies. They were attacked by a group of over three hundred French and Indians. This disastrous engagement for the British became known as the Battle of Monongahela or Braddock's Defeat. Three hundred Ottawas, Miamis, Hurons, Delawares, Shawnees, Mingoes, and Iroquois and about thirty French colonial troops shot from the dense forest. Their first targets were British officers. All were shot or killed except one officer of the Virginia militia as the ranking officer. This young man’s name was George Washington. A few days later, Washington wrote the governor of Virginia, his mother and his brother about the disastrous engagement. To his brother he wrote, "But by the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation, for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt..."
Washington knew that God's providence had spared him from death when four bullets fell from his coat and two horses were shot from under him. Today, revisionists ignore primary source material like Washington's diary. We have a clear record from his own handwritten accounts, of what took place and how he interpreted those dramatic moments. Providence, God’s foreknowledge and provision, protected the man who would lead a people to freedom and be their first Chief Executive of the United States of America.
Ed Litton
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