Braddock’s Road extended from Cumberland, Maryland, to Fort Duquesne (now Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). An army under the British general Edward Braddock built the road in 1755. Braddock’s forces needed the road to move military supplies across the Allegheny Mountains during the French and Indian War.
Settlers heading toward Ohio soon followed the same route. Part of this road became the route of the National, or Cumberland, Road (see National Road ).
