Braddock, Edward, British general, born in Perthshire; entered the Coldstream Guards, and became major-general in 1754; commanded a body of troops against the French in America, fell in an attempt to invest Fort Duquesue, and lost nearly all his men (1695‒1755).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bradamante * Braddon, Miss