July 13,1755 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania - British General Edward Braddock dies of his wounds after he and his force of British troops and colonial militia were caught in a French and Indian ambush on the way to attack Fort Duquesne; his aide George Washington assumes command of the retreating army. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- July 13,1687 Scarborough Ontario - Jacques-René de Brisay de Denonville 1637-1710 burns several Seneca villages on the south shore of Lake Ontario with a canoe flotilla of 3,000 French troops and Indian allies; captures 200 Iroquois; returns across the Lake and camps on the site of Scarborough. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------