Editing Edward Braddock (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Braddock's Grave.jpg|thumb|The grave of General Edward Braddock]] 
[[File:BraddocksPlaque.jpg|thumb|Dedication Plaque]]
[[Benjamin Franklin]]'s ''[[The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin|Autobiography]]'' (1791) includes an account of helping General Braddock garner supplies and carriages for the general's troops.  He also describes a conversation with Braddock in which he explicitly warned the General that his plan to march troops to the fort through a narrow valley would be dangerous because of the possibility of an ambush.  This is sometimes cited as advice against the disastrous eventual outcome, but the fact remains that Braddock was not ambushed in that final action, and the battle site was not, in any case, a narrow valley. Braddock had in fact taken great precautions against ambuscade, and had crossed the Monongahela an additional time to avoid the narrow [[Turtle Creek (Monongahela River)|Turtle Creek]] defile.

In 1804, human remains believed to be Braddock's were found buried in the [[National Road|roadway]] about 1.5 miles (2.4&nbsp;km) west of Great Meadows by a crew of road workers.<ref>[https://www.nps.gov/fone/braddockgrave.htm Braddock's Grave]</ref>  The remains were exhumed and moved to a nearby site for reburial.<ref>[https://www.nps.gov/places/braddock-s-grave.htm Braddock Grave]</ref> A marble monument was erected over the new grave site in 1913 by the [[Coldstream Guards]].

General Braddock is the namesake of [[Braddock, Pennsylvania|Braddock Borough]], Mt. Braddock, [[Braddock Hills, Pennsylvania|Braddock Hills]], and [[North Braddock, Pennsylvania|North Braddock]] in [[Pennsylvania]];<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=a4NIAAAAIBAJ&pg=2867%2C2505444 | title=Town names carry a little bit of history | work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | date=10 May 1984 | access-date=26 May 2015 | author=Porter, Thomas J. Jr. | pages=1}}</ref> the community of [[Braddock Heights, Maryland|Braddock Heights]] or Braddock Mountain west of [[Frederick, Maryland]]; Braddock Middle School and [[Maryland Route 49|Braddock Road]] in [[Cumberland, Maryland]]; and, in [[Virginia]], [[Virginia State Route 620 (Fairfax and Loudoun counties)|Braddock Road]], which runs from [[Alexandria, Virginia|Alexandria]] to [[Aldie, Virginia|Aldie]], a separate Braddock Road within the city of Alexandria – namesake of the [[Braddock Road (WMATA station)|Metrorail station]] at its eastern terminus – and Braddock Street in [[Winchester, Virginia|Winchester]]. Sections of the road cut by the British Army are known as the [[Braddock Road (Braddock expedition)|Braddock Road]] and form most of eastern [[U.S. Route 40]] in Maryland and Pennsylvania.