Braddock and his English army were massacred by the French and Indians near Fort Duquesne.
The old chief told how Beaujeu with his Frenchmen and his five hundred Indians ambushed Braddock's army, surrounded the soldiers, fired from the ravines, the trees, the long grass, poured a pitiless hail of bullets on the bewildered British soldiers, who, unaccustomed to this deadly and unseen foe, huddled under the trees like herds of frightened sheep, and were shot down with hardly an effort to defend themselves.
The old chief related that fifteen years after that battle he went to the Kanawha settlement to see the Big Chief, Gen.

George Washington, who was travelling on the Kanawha.

He told Gen.
Washington how he had fought in the battle of Braddock's Fields; how he had shot and killed Gen.

Braddock; how he had fired repeatedly at Washington, and had killed two horses under him, and how at last he came to the conclusion that Washington was protected by the Great Spirit who destined him for a great future.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Myeerah was the Indian name for a rare and beautiful bird--the white crane--commonly called by the Indians, Walk-in-the-Water.

It had been the name of Tarhe's mother and grandmother.