Military disasters followed one after the other.
Washington and Braddock had both been overthrown in successive attempts upon Fort Duquesne; and now the English Fort of Oswego, their outpost at Lake Ontario, was lost through mismanagement and bad generalship.
Canada owned a centralized government.

She could send out her men by the various routes to the points of vantage where the struggle lay.

England had an enormous border to protect, and no one centre of operations to work from.

She was hampered at every turn by internal jealousies, and by incompetent commanders.

Braddock had been a good soldier, but he could not understand forest fighting, and had raged against the Virginian men, who were doing excellent work firing at the Indians from behind trees, and meeting their tactics by like ones.