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General -- british general bradig. they were leading almost 1,500 troops out to western pennsylvania, fort d duquesne, around pittsburgh now. washington knew the area and he warned bradig that there are places that are real good ambush sites, i wouldn't go there. general bradig was a british general. you know, they're most of them are quite proud. they know it. so they march right in through this area. almost 1,000, maybe 700 french troops with indians ambushed them and started mowing them down. out of the 1,500 they started with, there was over 1,000 deaths. wounded. among those were all of t...

Are doing that, that you are like okay, i trust, i have faith. but i'm afraid. was he ever afraid? >> washington, there is no evidence in the record he feared death, no evidence that he feared being injured in battle. what he was afraid of that he was not up to the task. he didn't have what america needed to provide the leadership that they were calling him for. >> glenn: he didn't at first, did he? the most surprising thing that i learned about george washington, we think of him as a great general. he stunk on ice at the beginning. for like a year or. so i mean he -- we lost new york, we lost...

Are doing that, that you are like okay, i trust, i have faith. but i'm afraid. was he ever afraid? >> washington, there is no evidence in the record he feared death, no evidence that he feared being injured in battle. what he was afraid of that he was not up to the task. he didn't have what america needed to provide the leadership that they were calling him for. >> glenn: he didn't at first, did he? the most surprising thing that i learned about george washington, we think of him as a great general. he stunk on ice at the beginning. for like a year or. so i mean he -- we lost new york, we lost...

General -- british general bradig. they were leading almost 1,500 troops out to western pennsylvania, fort d duquesne, around pittsburgh now. washington knew the area and he warned bradig that there are places that are real good ambush sites, i wouldn't go there. general bradig was a british general. you know, they're most of them are quite proud. they know it. so they march right in through this area. almost 1,000, maybe 700 french troops with indians ambushed them and started mowing them down. out of the 1,500 they started with, there was over 1,000 deaths. wounded. among those were all of t...