Many of them leaped in and scalped the fallen before the eyes of the horrified soldiers.

The yelling never ceased, and it was so terrific that the few British officers who survived declared that they would never forget it to their dying day.
Among the officers the mortality was now frightful.

The brave Sir Peter Halket was shot dead, and his young son, the lieutenant, rushing to raise up his body, was killed and fell by his side.

The youthful Shirley, Braddock's secretary, received a bullet in his brain and died instantly.

Out of eighty-six officers sixty-three were down.
Washington alone seemed to bear a charmed life.